The Board of Governors is a supreme management body of the Northern Forum and makes major decisions on supporting the organization’s activities and on its development strategy.
The Board consists of the regions’ leaders of its members, each with a deciding vote. As a rule, the Board is convened during the General Assembly, held semi-annually. The County Governor of the Regional Council of Lapland Mika Riipi is the current chair.
The Chair of the Regional Coordinators Committee and the Executive Director are responsible for preparing the Board meetings and attend them with a consultative vote.
The members of the Board of Governors are:
Yury Bezdudny
Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum
Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Dmitry Artyukhov
Governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Kim Jin-tae
Governor of Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea
Vladimir Solodov
Governor of Kamchatka Krai, Russia
Natalya Komarova
Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra, Russia
Mikhail Kotyukov
Acting Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Vladislav Kuznetsov
Acting Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Aisen Nikolaev
Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Mike J. Dunleavy
Governor of Alaska, USA