ICEHO is governed by an elected Board of Directors and the General Assembly of members. The General Assembly meets at least once every two years and at every World Congress of Environmental History. All current members are invited to have one voting representative attend the General Assembly. ICEHO operates under Bylaws which were adopted in 2011

The Board of Directors consists of Officers, Ordinary Members, and the Immediate Past President

Officers (President and Vice President elected  for 2019–2022-term, extended till 2024 due to COVID exigency. Treasurer elected 2017–2021, replaced by new Treasurer 2021–2025. Secretary elected 2017–2021. Extended due to COVID exigency 2021-2025)

Ordinary Members (elected for 2019–2022 term, extended to 2024 due to COVID exigency)

Immediate Past President: Verena Winiwarter

ICEHO's Board of Directors

• Stefan Dorondel: Institute of Anthropology, Academy of Social Sciences & Institute for Southeast European Studies, Bucharest, Romania

• Eunice Sueli Nodari: History Department, Center of Philosophy and Humanity Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

• Fei Sheng: History Department, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China & Deputy Director, Center for Oceania Studies, Ministry of Education, China

• Graeme Wynn: Department of Geography, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada

• Kathleen A. Brosnan: History Department, University of Oklahoma, United States

• Katie Ritson: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany 

• Mark Madison: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C., United States

• Maurits Ertsen: Water Resources Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

• Muchaparara Musemwa: History Department & Head School of Social Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

• Ravi Rajan: Environmental Studies Department, University of California Santa Cruz, United States

• Ruth A. Morgan: School of History, Australian National University, Australia

• Sandra Swart: History Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Wilko Graf von Hardenberg: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

• Wilson Picado Umaña: History Department, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica