The top governing body of the Institute of the Information Society is the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is in charge of identifying the priority directions of activities and determining the Institute’s development strategy and organizational structure. The Board of Directors makes the key strategic decisions concerning changes to the Charter or to the membership of all the collegiate governing bodies, adopting decisions of reorganizing or closing down the Institute.

Members of the Board of Directors

• Yuri E. HOHLOV Chairman
  Head of IIS Directorate of Management of Large Systems Architecture
  Full Member of the Russian Engineering Academy
• Alexander M. ELIZAROV
  Director of IIS Educational Programs Directorate
  Deputy Director on Scientific Activities of the N.G. Chebotarev Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of Kazan State University Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Professor
• Tatiana V. ERSHOVA
  IIS General Director
  Candidate of Economic Sciences
• Andrei S. MENDKOVICH
  Head of IIS Directorate of ICT Use and Development
  President of FREEnet, Doctor of Science in Chemistry
• Sergey B. SHAPOSHNIK
  Head of IIS Directorate of Monitoring Information Society Development
  Head of the Center of Computer Telecommunications of the N.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Victor V. STROGANOV
  IIS Deputy General Director - Executive Director
• Mikhail V. YAKUSHEV
  Director of IIS Legal Programs Directorate
  Vice-President, Mail.Ru Group