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
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
Kim Jin-tae
Governor of Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea
Mikhail Degtyarev
Acting Governor of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
Michael Joseph Dunleavy
Governor of Alaska, USA
Vladimir Solodov
Governor of Kamchatka 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
Alexander Uss
Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia