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

The Supervisory Board gives advice to BICC's Board of Trustees and supervises the Director. 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
• Ingrid Arenz
  Engagement Global gGmbH - Service für Entwicklungsinitiativen (Service for Development Initiatives)
• Dr Barbara Basten
  Ministry of Finance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Winfried Mengelkamp
  State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Dr. Bernhard Santel
  Ministry for Children, Family, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Professor 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.

• 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
• David de Beer 
  SSR and Post-conflict development consultant, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
• Professor Dr Elizabeth Ferris
  Institute for the Study of International Migration, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
• Professor Dr Laurent Goetschel
  Professor for Political Sciences, Department for Social Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
  Director, swisspeace, Bern, Switzerland
• Professor Dr Yvan Guichaoua 
  University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies, Belgium 
• 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
• Professor Dr Teresa Koloma Beck
  Professor of Sociology, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
• Einas Mohammed 
  Political Affairs Officer / Africa Coordinator on UN Security Council Resolution 1540 Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia 
• Branka Panic
  Founder and Executive Director of AI for Peace, San Francisco, USA 
  Center on International Cooperation, New York University 
• Professor Dr Bernhard Trautner 
  Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Bonn 
  Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany 
  Honorary Professor, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, University Tübingen