The Board of Governors is the highest policy-making body of the Northern Forum. The members of the Board are Northern Forum member-regions senior officials. The Board of Governors is as follows:
Yury Bezdudny
Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum
Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Mika Riipi
Chair of the Northern Forum
Governor of Lapland, Finland
Ásthildur Sturludóttir
Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum
Mayor of Akureyri, Iceland
Dmitry Artyukhov
Governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Choi Moon-Soon
Governor of Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea
Mikhail Degtyarev
Acting Governor of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
Michael Joseph Dunleavy
Governor of Alaska, USA
Oleg Kozhemyako
Governor of Primorsky Krai, Russia
Natalya Komarova
Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra, Russia
Roman Kopin
Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Aisen Nikolaev
Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Sergey Nosov
Governor of Magadan Oblast, Russia
Vladimir Solodov
Governor of Kamchatka Krai, Russia
Alexander Uss
Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia