The the executive board is constituted of members of various departments and faculties of the University of Basel and is elected by the plenary meeting.

Members of the executive board:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Grob, Slavic and General Literatures
Deputy: Prof. Dr. Alexander Honold, German Literature

Prof. Dr. Ina Habermann, English Literature since the Renaissance
Deputy: Prof. Dr. Susanne Bickel, Egyptology and Classic Studies

Dr. Barbara Piatti, Literature and Culture Studies
Deputy: Jürgen Mischke, MA, Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Jacques Picard, General and Jewish History and the Culture of Modernity
Deputy: Prof. Dr. Barbara Schellewald, Medieval History of Art

Prof Dr. Benjamin Frithjof Schenk, Eastern European History
Deputy: vacant

Prof. Dr. Rita Schneider-Sliwa, Social Geography, Urban and Regional Studies
Deputy: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus J. Kuhn, Physical Geography

Chair: Prof. Dr. Ina Habermann

Executive office: Alex Van Lierde