The Board of the VAD currently consists of 15 elected members:
- Erdmute Alber, Bayreuth University
- Susann Baller, DHI Paris
- Rose Marie Beck, Leipzig University
- Dmitri van den Bersselaar, Leipzig University
- Susanne Gehrmann, Humboldt University Berlin
- Tilo Grätz, Free University Berlin
- Clemens Greiner, Cologne University
- Annika Hampel, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies/Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut
- Holger Kirscht, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
- Kathrin Knodel, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Doris Löhr, Bayreuth University
- Andreas Mehler, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg
- Dieter Neubert, Bayreuth University
- Aisha Othman, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Felix Schürmann Kassel University