- Chairman Dr Knud Larsen
Honorary Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Former Permanent Secretary at the Danish Ministry for Research, Former Chairman of the Danish Refugee Council
- Vice-Chairman Professor Rainer Hofmann
Co-Director of Wilhelm Merton Centre, Professor at Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, President of the Advisory Committee to the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM)
- Professor Bertel Heurlin
Jean Monnet Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen
- Dr. Jørgen Kühl
A.P. Møller Skolen, Schleswig, Germany
- Mr. Ingbert Liebing
Member of the German Bundestag
- Ms. Caroline Schwarz
Beauftragte für Minderheiten und Kultur des Ministerpräsidenten des Landes Schleswig-Holstein (Minority Representative of the German Land of Schleswig-Holstein)
- Ms. Ilze Brands Kehris
Director, Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE, The Hauge
- Dr. Ralf Rene Weingaertner
Director of Human Rights and Anti-discriminationat the Council of Europe
- Ms. Karin Riis Jørgensen
Former Member of the European Parliament, Former Vice-Chairwoman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, Chairwoman of the "European Privacy Association", Member of the Board of PA International (Public Advice International Foundation), Senioradviser for Communication-Agency Kreab & Gavin Anderson in Bruxelles
- Dr. Detlev Rein
Substitute for Mr. Liebing
- Ms. Susanne Herold
Substitute for Ms. Schwarz
- Mr. Alexey Kozhemyakov
Substitute for Dr. Weingeartner