The term of office of all FoCM committees is from one FoCM conference to the next. In practice this means two-three years.

FoCM has the following three-tier structure. The day-to-day affairs are being managed by the FoCM Executive Committee. As of July 2011, the Executive Committee comprises of

	Teresa Krick	Chair
	(University of Buenos Aires)	krick[at]dm.uba.ar
	Antonella Zanna	Secretary
	(University of Bergen)	anto[at]ii.uib.no
	Agnes Szanto	Treasurer
	(North Carolina State University)	aszanto[at]ncsu.edu

The governing body of FoCM is its Board of Directors which in addition to the three members of the FoCM Executive Committee includes

	Peter Olver	Conferences
	(University of Minnesota)
	Allan Pinkus	Publications
	(Technion, Haifa)
	Felipe Cucker	Editor of FoCM
	(City University of Hong Kong)
	Mike Todd	Editor of FoCM
	(Cornell University)
	Annalisa Buffa	Member-at-large
	(Universita degli Studi de Pavia)
	Albert Cohen	Member-at-large
	(Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
	Wolfgang Dahmen	Member-at-large
	(RWTH Aachen)
	Jean-Pierre Dedieu	Member-at-large
	(MIP, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
	Alan Edelman	Member-at-large
	(MIT)
	Arieh Iserles	Member-at-large
	(University of Cambridge)
	Angela Kunoth	Member-at-large
	(Universität Paderborn)
	Gregorio Malajovich	Member-at-large
	(Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro)
	Liz Mansfield	Member-at-large
	(University of Kent, Canterbury)
	Konstantin Mischaikow	Member-at-large
	(Rutgers University)
	Hans Munthe-Kaas	Member-at-large
	(University of Bergen)
	Luis Pardo	Member-at-large
	(Universidad de Cantabria)
	Jim Renegar	Member-at-large
	(Cornell University)
	Michael Singer	Member-at-large
	(North Carolina State University)
	Endre Süli	Member-at-large
	(Oxford University)
	Shmuel Weinberger	Member-at-large
	(University of Chicago)

The role of FoCM Council is to elect the Board of Directors and to act as the definitive forum for major decisions. The Council comprises:

1. Members of editorial and advisory boards of FoCM publications;
2. Members of the FoCM'08 Organizing Committee;
3. Members of the FoCM'05 Organizing Committee;
4. Workshop organisers at FoCM'05 and FoCM'08;
5. Other individuals, who may be coopted by the BoD from time to time.

as well as members of the Board of Directors.