ORCID is governed by an elected Board of Directors, majority non-profit, comprised of fourteen members of the global scholarly research community. Membership in the Board of Directors is drawn from and representative of ORCID member organizations. The Board is responsible for establishing general policies for the governance of ORCID, based on a set of core principles, among them openness and transparency. In addition to the Board of Directors, ORCID has several Working Groups, open to the research community.

2013 Board of Directors

• Liz Allen, Wellcome Trust
• Micah Altman, Massachusetts institute of Technology
• Amy Brand, Harvard University
• Craig Van Dyck, Wiley-Blackwell
• Laurel L. Haak, Executive Director, ex officio (Secretary)
• Thomas Hickey, Online Computer Library Center
• Dave Kochalko, Thomson Reuters (Treasurer)
• Salvatore Mele, CERN
• Ed Pentz, CrossRef (Chair)
• Howard Ratner, Nature Publishing Group 
• Bernie Rous, Association for Computing Machinery
• Chris Shillum, Elsevier
• Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics
• Todd Vision
• Simeon Warner, Cornell University

Staff

• Laurel L. Haak Executive Director
• Rebecca Bryant, Director of Community
• Laura Paglione, Technical Director
• Rob Peters, Lead Developer
• Catalina Oyler, Technical Support and Writing
• Eleese Bohannon-Scott, Office Manager