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