| Ricardo Baeza-Yates | University of Chile, Chile and ICREA-UPF, Spain |
| Paolo Ferragina | University of Pisa, Italy |
| Leszek Gąsieniec | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Raffaele Giancarlo | University of Palermo, Italy |
| Roberto Grossi | University of Pisa, Italy |
| Dan Gusfield | University of California, Davis, USA |
| Tao Jiang | University of California, Riverside, USA and Tsinghua University, China |
| Gad M. Landau | University of Haifa, Israel |
| Thierry Lecroq | University of Rouen, France |
| Moshe Lewenstein (Co-chair) | Bar-Ilan University, Israel |
| Ming Li | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Stefano Lonardi | University of California, Riverside, USA |
| Laxmi Parida | IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA |
| Ayumi Shinohara | Tohoku University, Japan |
| Jens Stoye | University of Bielefeld, Germany |
| Esko Ukkonen | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Gabriel Valiente (Co-chair) | Technical University of Catalonia, Spain |
| Kaizhong Zhang | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Michal Ziv-Ukelson | Tel Aviv University, Israel |