The ECI members are composed of renowned ecologists, several of whom are ECI Prize laureates (by tradition, ECI Prize laureates are invited to join the staff). Years in parentheses signify when appointed.
Founder: Professor Otto Kinne
Honorary Director: Professor Stephen J Hawkins, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Marine Ecology
Prof. Farooq Azam, La Jolla, CA, USA (1985)
Prof. Just Cebrian, San Francisco, CA, USA (2009)
Prof. Sallie W. Chisholm, Cambridge, MA, USA (1993)
Prof. Paul Falkowski, New Brunswick, NJ, USA (2010)
Prof. Tom Fenchel, Ebeltoft, Denmark (1985)
Dr. Nicolas S. Fisher, Stony Brook, NY, USA (1985)
Prof. Bo Barker Jørgensen, Århus, Denmark (2004)
Prof. David M. Karl, Honolulu, HI, USA (2006)
Prof. Louis Legendre, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France (2002)
Prof. Christine Maggs, Bournemouth, United Kingdom (2016)
Prof. Ernest Naylor, Menai Bridge, UK (1984)
Prof. Daniel Pauly, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2007)
Dr. Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France (1997)
Prof. Victor Smetacek, Bremerhaven, Germany (1993)
Prof. Antony Underwood, Sydney, Australia (2005)
Prof. Bess B. Ward, Princeton, NJ, USA (2006)
Dr. Markus Weinbauer, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France (2004)
Terrestrial Ecology
Prof. F. Stuart Chapin III, Fairbanks, AK, USA (1986)
Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Stanford, CA, USA (1994)
Prof. Madhav Gadgil, Bangalore, India (1985)
Prof. Andrew Hector, Oxford, UK (2006)
Prof. Robert D. Holt, Gainesville, FL, USA (2005)
Prof. Christian Körner, Basel, Switzerland (2006)
Prof. John Lawton, Heslington, UK (1997)
Prof. Michel Loreau, Moulis, France (2003)
Prof. Anders Pape Møller, Paris, France (1995)
Prof. Harold A. Mooney, Stanford, CA, USA (1991)
Prof. Christer Nilsson, Umea, Sweden (2006)
Prof. Bernt-Erik Saether, Trondheim, Norway (2000)
Prof. David Schimel, Boulder, CO, USA (1998)
Dr. Moshe Shachak, Sede Boker, Israel (1989)
Prof. William H. Schlesinger, Millbrook, NY, USA (2016)
Prof. Monica G. Turner, Madison, WI, USA (2005)
Dr. Diana H. Wall, Fort Collins, CO, USA (2005)
Freshwater Ecology
Prof. Nikolay V. Aladin, St. Petersburg, Russia (1994)
Prof. Stephen R. Carpenter, Madison, WI, USA (2000)
Prof. John A. Downing, Duluth, MN, USA (2015)
Prof. David Dudgeon, Hong Kong SAR, China (2015)
Prof. Jose I. Furtado, London, UK (1985)
Prof. Z. Maciej Gliwicz, Warsaw, Poland (1998)
Dr. John E. Hobbie, Woods Hole, MA, USA (1986)
Prof. Ewa Kamler, Warsaw, Poland (1993)
Prof. P. Sam Lake, Melbourne, Australia (2015)
Prof. Gene E. Likens, Millbrook, NY, USA (1989)
Dr. David M. Livingstone, Duebendorf, Switzerland (2009)
Prof. T. J. Pandian, Madurai, India (1985)
Prof. Mary Power, Berkeley, CA, USA (2006)
Dr. Telesphore Sime-Ngando, Aubière, France (2009)
Prof. John P. Smol, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (2015)
Prof. Ruben Sommaruga, Innsbruck, Austria (2008)
Prof. Robert Sterner, St. Paul, MN, USA (2005)
Prof. Klement Tockner, Frankfurt, Germany (2015)
Prof. Lars Tranvik, Uppsala, Sweden (2005)
Prof. Jose Galizia Tundisi, São Paulo, Brazil (1990)
Prof. Masumi Yamamuro, Tokyo, Japan (2009)