IERS Directing Board
The DB exercises general control over the activities of the service and modifies the organization as appropriate to maintain efficiency and reliability, while taking full advantage of the advances in technology and theory. It meets once or twice each year, summaries of minutes of these meetings are available.
For more details about the tasks, please consult the Terms of Reference. For regular mail addresses of the Directing Board members, please see 
Appendix 2 (PDF, 58KB) of the IERS Annual Report 2018.
Representatives
| Function/ Representative of | Name | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Chair | Tonie van Dam | University of Utah |
| Analysis Coordinator | Robert Heinkelmann | GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam |
| Product Centres | ||
| Earth Orientation | Christian Bizouard | Observatoire de Paris |
| Rapid Service / Prediction | Nick Stamatakos | U.S. Naval Observatory Earth Orientation Department |
| Conventions | Christian Bizouard | Observatoire de Paris |
| ICRS | Claire E. Cramer | United States Naval Observatory Astrometry Department |
| ITRS | Zuheir Altamimi | Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN) Laboratoire de Recherche en Géodésie (LAREG) |
| Global Geophysical Fluids | Jean-Paul Boy | Ecole et Observatoire des Science de la Terre (EOST), Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg (IPGS) |
| Central Bureau | Daniela Thaller | Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie |
| Technique Centres | ||
| IDS | Jérôme Saunier | Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN) Réseaux et Services Internationaux |
| Petr Štěpánek | Geodetic observatory Pecný |
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| IGS | Rolf Dach | Universität Bern Astronomisches Institut |
| Elisabetta D'Anastasio | GNS Science | |
| ILRS | Mathis Bloßfeld | DGFI |
| Clément Courde | UFR Sciences-Laboratoire GEOAZU Internationaux | |
| IVS | Sigrid Böhm | Technische Universität Wien Dep. für Geodäsie und Geoinformation |
| Rüdiger Haas | Chalmers University of Technology Onsala Space Observatory | |
| Union Representatives | ||
| IAU | Aleksander Brzezinski | Space Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences |
| IAG / IUGG | Thomas Herring | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| GGOS | Detlef Angermann | Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI-TUM) |
