The Academic Advisory Board provides specialist oversight of the academic work of the Institute. It is involved in planning the work of the Institute and in evaluating the outcome of that work. The Board consists of 12 members. The members of the Board are appointed for a five-year term and can be reappointed once.

The following professors are currently members of the Academic Advisory Board:

 

Renate Dürr	Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
Birgit Emich	Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
Ulrike Freitag	Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin
Charlotte Methuen	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Julia Richers	University of Bern, Schweiz
Silke Schwandt	University of Bielefeld
Margit Szöllösi-Janze	Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Jakob Vogel	Centre Marc Bloch (CMB), Berlin
Günther Wassilowsky	Humboldt-University Berlin