FJN is governed by a board of 9 directors, who are elected for 3 year terms (with the initial appointments in 2020 being staggered). The board elects various officers. The current directors are:
- Mark C. Wilson (President)
- Elyse Gustafson (Treasurer)
- Wendy Patterson
- Virginia Steel (library representative)
- Jean-Sébastien Caux (infrastructure)
- Jamie Farquharson (Secretary)
- Matthieu Latapy (at-large member)
- Michaël Poss (constituent journal representative)
- Patrick Trettenbrein (constituent journal representative)
In addition there is an informal Advisory Committee invited by the board. The Advisory Committee currently consists of:
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- Saray Córdoba (University of Costa Rica; Latindex)
- Caroline Coward (NASA JPL Library)
- Katharine Dunn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scholarly Communications)
- Mark Costello (Nord University, Marine Ecology)
- Martin Eve (University of London (Birkbeck), English and Humanities; Open Library of Humanities)
- Timothy Gowers (University of Cambridge, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics)
- Alex Holcombe (University of Sydney, Psychology)
- Barbara Sarnecka (UC Irvine, Psychology)
- Peter Suber (Harvard University, Office of Scholarly Communication)
- David Wood (Monash University, Mathematics)
- Dmitri Zaitsev (Trinity College Dublin, Mathematics)
Institutional supporting members have limited rights concerning membership of the above groups, as explained on the relevant page.