The basic governing structure of ESOF2006 consists of a Steering Committee, an Advisory Board and a Programme Committee. A project team based at the WiD Office in Berlin prepares and conducts the meeting.

Steering Committee:

Wolfgang M. Heckl (Chair), Deutsches Museum, München

Ingrid Wünning (Vice Chair), Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart

Sir Colin Berry, Queen Mary College, London

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Paris

Jean-Patrick Connerade, Euroscience, Strasbourg

Ulrike Felt, Universität Wien, Wien

Volker Meyer-Guckel, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Essen

Marta Maczel, World Academy of Young Scientists, Budapest 

Andrew Moore, European Molecular Biology Organisation, Heidelberg

Patricia Boya, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid

Raymond Seltz, Euroscience, Strasbourg

Rolf Tarrach, Université de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Neil Williams, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg

Ekkehard Winter, Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, Bonn

Advisory Board:

Joachim Treusch (Chair), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich

Bertil Andersson, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg

Enric Banda, Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació, Barcelona

Philip Campbell, Nature, London

Catherine Cesarsky, European Southern Observatory, Garching

Ingrid Hamm, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart

Norbert Kroo, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Budapest

Helga Nowotny, Wissenschaftszentrum Wien, Wien

Arend Oetker, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Essen

Alain Pompidou, European Patent Office, Munich

Carl Johan Sundberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Hans Wigzell, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 

Wolfgang M. Heckl (Secretary), Deutsches Museum, München

Programme Committee:

Jean-Patrick Connerade, (Chair), Euroscience, Strasbourg

Carl Johan Sundberg, (Vice Chair), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Luigi Amodio, Fondazione IDIS-Città della Scienza, Napoli

Sir Colin Berry, Queen Mary College, London

Wim Blockmans, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Paris

Gail Cardew, Royal Institution, London

Quentin Cooper, Science Broadcaster London

Donald B. Dingwell, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

Robert Erikson, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm

Marie Noëlle Favier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris

Laszlo Fazekas, Hungarian Student Research Foundation, Budapest

Rainer Gerold, Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings, Brussels

Elisabeth Jaskulke, SUEZ, Paris 

Federico Mayor jr., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid

Howard Moore, UNESCO/ROSTE, Venice

Ortwin Renn, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Lewis Smith, Syngenta, Basel

Margit Sutrop, Tartu Ülikool (University of Tartu), Tartu

Frans Willekens, Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague

Ingrid Wünning, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart