The executive board consists of representatives of the four main research areas of the Centre for Area Studies together with the spokesperson. It discusses and advances the strategic development of CAS, in coordination with the meetings of the plenum, and it assists the spokesperson in realizing the research programme of the institute.

• Philip Clart
  Professor of Chinese History and Culture, Institute of East Asian Studies

• Hans-Georg Ebert
  Professor of Islamic Law, Institute of Oriental Studies

• Matthias Middell
  Professor of Cultural History, Global and European Studies Institute

• Stefan Troebst
  Professor of Cultural Studies of East Central Europe and Deputy
  Director of the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe

• Ute Wardenga
  Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography