The Academic Board's role is to evaluate the strategy and research orientations of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Lyon. In particular, it has the responsibility of evaluating candidates' applications. It is composed of about ten internationally recognised members of the academic community.

President :

• Yves GRAFMEYER

Professor Emeritus, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Members :

• Jean-Claude AMEISEN
  President of the Ethics Committee at INSERM

• Alain BONNAFOUS
  Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon
  

• Antoine COMPAGNON
  Professor at the Collège de France
  

• Philippe DESCOLA
  Professor at the Collège de France
  

• Michel FICHANT
  Professor, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

• Peter A. HALL
  Professor at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University

• Miltiade B. HATZOPOULOS
  Director of the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation

• Gábor KLANICZAY
  Rector of the Collegium of Budapest

• Pascale LABORIER
  Director of the Centre March Bloch in Berlin
  

• Jean-Claude LEHMANN
  Member of the National Academy of Technology of France
  

• Marie-Claude MAUREL
  Director of the Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) in Prague

• Michel MORVAN
  Professor at ENS Lyon, Director of Studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
  

• Dominique PESTRE
  Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

• Alain PEYRAUBE
  Scientific Delegate for Ile-de-France at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

• Peter SAHLINS
  Professor at University of California Berkeley
  

• Salvatore SETTIS
  Director of the Ecole normale supérieure of Pisa

• Ysé TARDAN-MASQUELIER
  Researcher, member of the Institut de Recherche pour les Religions (IRER), Université Paris IV Sorbonne