The IAS Governing Council has always been a "Who is Who" in the AIDS world. For instance, persons like Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier, Robert Gallo, Anthony Fauci, Helene Gayle, Viola Onwuliri, Sheila Tlou, and the late Jonathan Mann, have served terms on the Governing Council.
- Quarraisha Abdool-Karim, South Africa
- Michael Adler, UK
- Dennis Altman, Australia
- Roberto Badaro, Brazil
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, France
- Chris Beyrer, USA
- Gunnel Biberfeld, Sweden
- William Blattner, USA
- Alexey Bobrik, Russian Federation
- J.B. Brunet, France
- Carlos Caceres, Peru
- Pedro Cahn, Argentina
- Yunzhen Cao, China
- Roy K.W. Chan, Singapore
- A.J. Clayton, Canada
- Bonaventura Clotet, Spain
- David A. Cooper, Australia
- HM Coovadia, South Africa
- James Curran, USA
- Ricardo Diaz, Brazil
- Sergii Dvoriak, Ukraine
- Gloria Echeverría de Pérez, Venezuela
- Anthony S. Fauci, USA
- J. Peter Figueroa, Jamaica
- Celso Ramos Filho, Brazil
- Margaret A. Fischl, USA
- Gerald Friedland, USA
- Joel Gallant, USA
- Robert C. Gallo, USA
- Bernardo Galvao-Castro, Brazil
- Helene Gayle, USA
- Jean-Claude Gluckman, France
- Jaap Goudsmit, Netherlands
- Andrew Grulich, Australia
- Lair Guerra De Macedo Rodrigues, Brazil
- Ian Gust, Australia
- Scott Hammer, USA
- W.A. Haseltine, USA
- Diane Havlir, USA
- Martin S. Hirsch, USA
- David Ho, USA
- Andrzej Horban, Poland
- John Idoko, Nigeria
- Rokiah Ismail, Malaysia
- Aikichi Iwamoto, Japan
- W.F.H. Jarrett, UK
- Margaret A. Johnson, UK
- Auguste Kadio, Cote d’Ivoire
- John Kaldor, Australia
- Lars Kallings, Sweden
- Bila Kapita, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Lazare Kaptue, Cameroon
- Elly Katabira, Uganda
- Michel Kazatchkine, France
- Sukhontha Kongsin, Thailand
- Joep M.A. Lange, Netherlands
- Ivette Lorenzana de Rivera, Honduras
- Jens Lundgren, Denmark
- Goh Kee Tai, Singapore
- Takashi Kitamura, Japan
- Jonathan Mann, WHO
- Kenneth Mayer, USA
- Edward H. Mbidde, Uganda
- Souleymane Mboup, Senegal
- Michael Merson, WHO
- Fred Mhalu, Tanzania
- Hiroaki Mitsuya, Japan
- Luc Montagnier, France
- Julio Montaner, Canada
- Alex Muganga Muganzi, Uganda
- Faustine Ndugulile, Tanzania
- Jens-Ole Nielsen, Denmark
- Gary Noble, USA
- Samuel I. Okware, Uganda
- Viola Onwuliri, Nigeria
- A. Oya, Japan
- Jean W. Pape, USA
- Hector Perez, Argentina
- John Phair, USA
- Praphan Phanuphak, Thailand
- Anthony Pinching, UK
- Peter Piot, Belgium
- Sai Subhasree Raghavan, India
- Peter Reiss, Nederlands
- Douglas Richman, USA
- Najmus Sadiq, Bangladesh
- NM Samuel, India
- Jaime Sepulveda, Mexico
- Mauro Schechter, Brazil
- Robert Schooley, USA
- Werasit Sittitrai, Thailand
- Cheryl Smith, USA
- Luis Soto-Ramirez, Mexico
- Papa Salif Sow, Senegal
- Sheila Tlou, Botswana
- Kumao Toyoshima, Japan
- Stefano Vella, Italy
- Paul A. Volberding, USA
- Mark Wainberg, Canada
- Sharon Walmsley, Canada
- Mercedes Weissenbacher, Argentina
- Ian Weller, UK
- Alan Whiteside, South Africa
- Robin Wood, South Africa
- Z. Yi, China
- Debrework Zewdie, Ethiopia