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,
Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Innovation and Governance, Copenhagen Business School 

Prof. John Braithwaite,
Federation Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University 

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

Prof. Knud Erik Jorgensen,
Professor of International Relations at Aarhus University 

Prof. Mary Kaldor,
Professsor of Global Governance. Director, Center for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science

Prof. Stathis Kalyvas
Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, Yale University 

Prof. José Maria Maravall,
Professor of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Prof. José Antonio Ocampo,
Prof. of International Relations at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University 

Prof. Michael Zürn,
Director of the Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions Department, Social Science Research Center Berlin, WZB