The International Advisory Council for the UN Intellectual History Project was established in July 1999 and is composed of eleven distinguished individuals from around the world who have a variety of practical and scholarly backgrounds. Sound advice and leadership came from:

Galal Amin

Margaret Joan Anstee

Lourdes Arizpe

Eveline Herfkens

Enrique Iglesias

András Inotai

Thandika Mkandawire

Gert Rosenthal

John G. Ruggie

Makoto Taniguchi

Ramesh Thakur