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
Chair of the Northern Forum
Governor of Nenets A O, Russia

Aisen Nikolaiev
Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum
from Northeast Russia
Head of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Russia

Natalya Komarova
Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum
from Northwest Russia
Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk A O – Urga, Russia

Ásthildur Sturludóttir
Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum
from Northern Europe
Mayor of Akureyri, Iceland

Choi Moon-soon
Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum
from Northeast Asia
Governor of Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea

Aleksandr Uss
Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

Oleg Kojemyako
Governor of Primorsky Krai, Russia

Michael J. Dunleavy
Governor of Alaska (USA)

Dmitriy Artykhov
Governor of Yamal-Nenets A O, Russia

Vladimir Ilyukhin
Governor of Kamchatka Krai, Russia

Mikhail Degtyarev
Acting Governor of Khabarovskiy Krai, Russia
Sergey Nosov
Governor of Magadan Oblast, Russia

Mika Riipi
Governor of Lapland, Finland

Roman Kopin
Governor of Chukotka A O, Russia