IBEI's Statutes provide for the possibility of creating an advisory council if required. In 2005, the Board of Patrons considered it useful to create this Council, made up of leading international scholars, and convene a yearly meeting in order to have them assess IBEI's activities and advise on the Institute's present and future activities, regardless of the members' involvement in IBEI activities above and beyond Council meetings.

The members of the International Academic Council are: 

PRESIDENT

Javier Solana,
President of the Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics at ESADE (ESADEgeo)

BOARD MEMBERS

Prof. Carles Boix,
Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Prof. Susana Borrás,
Professor of Innovation and Governance, Copenhagen Business School

Prof. John Braithwaite,
Distinguished Professor, Australian National University

Prof. Jean Grugel,
Professor of Development Politics and Director of Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC), University of York

Prof. Christopher Hill,
Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge

Prof. Knud Erik Jørgensen,
Professor of International Relations, Aarhus University

Prof. Mary Kaldor,
Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science

Prof. Stathis Kalyvas,
Gladstone Professor of Government at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

Prof. Nico Krisch,
Professor of international law and co-director of the Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva

Prof. José Maria Maravall,
Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College (Oxford); Fellow of the British Academy; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Former Professor of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Prof. José Antonio Ocampo,
Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

Prof. Michael Zürn,
Director of the research unit "Global Governance" at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and Professor of International Relations at the Freie University Berlin