• 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
• 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
• N.N.

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
• Professor Dr Kristian Berg Harpviken
  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
• Professor 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 the Sociology of Globalisation, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
  Senior Research Fellow Hamburg Institute for Social Research
  (from 1 April 2019 – 30 September 2020)
• Simon Yazgi
  Senior Mediation Advisor in the Mediation Standby Team of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA), Geneva, Switzerland