• State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Chair: Anette Baron, Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
• State Government of Brandenburg

The Supervisory Board gives advice to BICC's Board of Trustees and supervises the Board of Directors. The Supervisory Board is made up of representatives of Trustees, all being public figures from politics, economy, science and/or public authorities.

• Chair: Thorsten Menne
  Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Dr. Barbara Basten
  Ministry of Finance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Hannelore Kaukel
  Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Land Brandenburg
• Franz Meiers
  NRW.URBAN Service GmbH
  
• Joachim Neuser
  Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitilisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Talmon
  University of Bonn

The International Board advises BICC and its director on matters of research and policy. In its capacity, it makes suggestions concerning the annual work program and comments on the publications.

The members are appointed for a period of three years by the Board of Trustees (Gesellschafterversammlung). They serve in an honorary position.

• Chair: Dr. Jocelyn Mawdsley
  Senior Lecturer in European Politics, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK
  
• Ambassador Susanne Baumann
  Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms
  Control; Director-General for International Order, the United Nations
  and Arms Control of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
• Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken
  Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway
• Professor Dr Elizabeth Ferris
  Institute for the Study of International Migration, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
• Dr Laurent Goetschel
  Professor for Political Sciences, Department for Social Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
  Director, swisspeace, Bern, Switzerland
• Professor Angela Kane
  (Former UN Under-Secretary-General)
  Director of the Advisory Board, Dialogue Advisory Group, Netherlands
  Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Austria
  
• Adolf Kloke-Lesch
  Executive Director of SDSN Germany (Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany) at the German Development Institute, Bonn, Germany
• Professor Dr Teresa Koloma Beck
  Professor for Sociology of Globalisation, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces), Munich, Germany
• Simon Yazgi
  Senior Mediation Advisor in the Mediation Standby Team of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA), Geneva, Switzerland