Board of Directors

• Prof. Dr Mahmud Erol Kılıç (Chairman)
  Secretary General of the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Member States
• Prof. Dr Charles Melville (President)
  Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge and Director, Shahnama Project
• Mr Davidson MacLaren (Executive Director)
  Head, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation
• Mr Adnan Bogary (Treasurer)
  Chairman, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation
• Dr Mandana Barkeshli
  Associate Professor, Head of Department, Department of Applied Arts and Design, Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia
• Mr Paul Hepworth
  Independent Manuscript Conservator
• Mr David Hirsch
  Chief Librarian, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture Heritage
• Prof. Dr Yasir Suleiman
  Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies and His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa‘id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Cambridge
• Prof. Dr Jan Just Witkam
  Chair of Paleography and Codicology of the Islamic World, University of Leiden

Coopted Board Members

• Ms Carol Burrows
  Collection and Research Support Manager, The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester
• Ms Karin Scheper
  Conservator, Leiden University Library
• Dr Muhammad Isa Waley
  Curator, Persian and Turkish Collections, British Library

Board of Directors Emeriti

• Dr Seyyed Mohammad Ali Ahmadi Abhari
  Head of Iranology and Islamic Studies Centre, National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Shaykh Prof. Dr Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El Tayeb
  Grand Shaykh of Al-Azhar
• Dr Omar Khalidi
  Librarian, Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Dr Ayman Fuad Sayyid
  Professor of Islamic History and Manuscript Expert and Consultant
• Mr Timothy Winter
  Sheikh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge