The Executive Council consists of seven members. The Executive Council is comprised of:

(1) five representatives of the German Consortium (one of each consortium partner, and two of the University of Freiburg as leader of the German Consortium)

(2) two representatives of the University of Ghana

• Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg (in particular the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT), FRIAS, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and Arnold Bergstraesser Institute)
  • Representatives: Andreas Mehler, Bernd Kortmann
• Point Sud, Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies, Goethe-University of Frankfurt
  • Representative: Mamadou Diawara
• German Historical Institute in Paris/Max Weber Foundation
  • Representative: Klaus Oschema
• Institute of African Affairs, German Institute of Global and Areas Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg
  • Representative: Julia Grauvogel
• The University of Ghana, Legon-Accra (in particular the College of Humanities)
  • Representatives: Abena Oduro, Samuel Ntewusu 

• Members of the Executive Council are appointed by their home institutions for a period of three years. Members may be re-appointed.
  

  The Executive Council is responsible for strategic decision-making with regard to financial and human resources.

   

  Abena Oduro is the President of the Executive Council of MIASA. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana and former MIASA Director.

  Andreas Mehler is the Vice-President of the Executive Council of MIASA. He is both the Director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and the Africa Centre for Transregional Research as well as Full Professor at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Freiburg.