General Meetings with representatives of each member institution are held twice a year. Current business between the General Meetings are run by the Chair and the Executive Committee assisted by the Secretariat.

Current Executive Committee:

• Christoph Häuser, Chair, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.
  
• Stefan Claesson, Deputy Chair, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.
  
• Michel Louette, Secretary, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren.
  
• Ernst Vitek, Treasurer, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.
  
• Wieslaw Bogdanowicz, Committee member, Museum and Institute for Zoology PAN, Warsaw.
  
• Thierry Bourgoin, Committee member, Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
  
• Rob Huxley, Committee member, Natural History Museum, London.
  
• Michelle J. Price, Committee member, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Genève.