INTECOL, the International Association for Ecology, has a governing board.
The latter consists of executive board members and officers.

   The Existing Officers are:

   President: Shona Myers (National Office of Department of Conservation; New Zealand)
   Past President: Alan P. Covich (University of Georgia; United States of America)
   Vice President: Bojie Fu (Chinese Academy of Sciences; Peoples Republic of China)
   Secretary General: Eun-Shik Kim (Kookmin University; Korea)
   Treasurer: Azim U. Mallik (Lakehead University; Canada)
   Bulletin Editor: Sun-Kee Hong (Mokpo National University; Korea)
   Advisor to Working Groups: Jos A. Verhoeven (Utrecht University; The Netherlands)

   The Executive Board Members are:

   Alastair H. Fitter (University of York; United Kingdom)
   John Grace (University of Edinburgh; United Kingdom)
   Craig D. James (CSIRO; Australia)
   Peter Søgaard Jørgensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
   John A. Lee (University of Sheffield; United Kingdom)
   Manuel Maass (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Mexico)
   Silvia De Marco (Mar del Plata National University, Argentina)
   Bernd Markert (University of Zittau; Germany)
   Akira Miyawaki (Yokohama National University; Japan)
   Shin-ichi Nakano (Kyoto University; Japan)
   Rebecca R. Sharitz (University of Georgia; United States of America)
   R. Eugene Turner (Louisiana State University; United States of America)
   Rusong Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences; Peoples Republic of China)
   Naupaka B. Zimmerman (University of Arizona, USA)

The Board conducts its business mostly by correspondence, but meets at the International Congresses of Ecology, and at approximately yearly intervals, usually at other major ecological meetings around the world.