The Advisory Board supports PRIF on the design and implementation of the institute's research programme. It is appointed by the Board of Trustees for four years and is made up of eight scholars from Germany and abroad:

• Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn (Chairman), Gießen/Germany
• Prof. Dr. Lars-Erik Cederman, Zurich/Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. Virginia Haufler, College Park/Maryland
• Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte, Munich/Germany
• Prof. Dr. David A. Welch, Waterloo
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, Berlin/Germany
• Prof. Dr. Georg Sørensen, Aarhus/Denmark
• Prof. Dr. Nina Tannenwald, Providence/Rhode Island
• Prof. Dr. Julia Eckert, Bern