The CEMS Chairman (currently Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, President of the University of St. Gallen) is elected by the Strategic Board. The Head Office is the permanent coordination and management body of CEMS.

Academic members must appoint representatives for the Strategic Board, Executive Board and Academic Committee:

• Strategic Board: Rector/Dean; once a year
• Executive Board: Associate Dean (International Affairs, Graduate Programmes); twice a year
• Academic Committee: professor in charge of CEMS MIM at the school; twice a year

Corporate Partner representatives are also invited to sit on both the Strategic and Executive Boards. Each company is represented by a Senior Partnership Holder (for strategic affairs), a Main Contact (for operational issues) and a Local Contact per country.

A CEMS Academic Coordinator is appointed to manage CEMS MIM student affairs at the school and interface with other schools, whilst a CEMS Corporate Relations Coordinator is appointed to manage interaction with CEMS Corporate Partners in the relevant country.

Professors from each school are invited to join the CEMS Faculty Groups, designed to promote joint faculty projects. The RDE Committee (Research and Doctoral Education) brings Directors of Ph.D. programmes together to foster Ph.D. cooperation and mobility of doctoral students. Committees are also in place to oversee the running of the MIM as a whole, the ongoing assurance of academic quality and the continued globalisation of CEMS.

Students are represented locally by the CEMS Clubs and centrally via the Student Board, whilst the alumni voice is represented on a country-by-country basis via Local Committees and centrally via the CEMS Alumni Association.