Board
Day-to-day board activities are carried out by poet-lecturer Dutch language and literature Job Degenaar (president) and writer-historian Wim Jurg (treasurer). Other office members are Charles den Tex, a thriller writer, dr. René Appel, a writer, professor emeritus and former chair of PEN Netherlands (2010-2014), and Paulien Loerts, general director of Singel Publishers and owner and director of Athenaeum Boekhandel.
The Advisory Board consists of: dr. Eric Lax (USA), Joanne Leedom-Ackerman (USA), Larry Siems (USA), Eugene Schoulgin (Sweden/Turkey), Tienchi Martin-Liao (China/Germany), dr. David Van Reybrouck (Belgium) en dr. Rudolf Geel (Netherlands).
Partners
PEN Emergency Fund cooperates with PEN International http://www.pen-international.org/ and PEN Netherlands http://pennederland.nl/
Supported by, among others, Stichting Lira Fonds http://www.lira.nl/lira-fonds
Remuneration policy
The president receives an executive fee of 100 euros per month.