CMES is governed by an Executive Steering Committee, consisting of UC Berkeley tenured faculty specializing in the Middle East from different disciplines.
Current committee members
Yonatan Binyam (Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean & Ethiopic Studies)
Charles Hirshkind (Professor and Chair of Anthropology)
Rita Lucarelli (Associate Professor of Egyptology, Class of 1939 Chair in Undergraduate Education)
Maria Mavroudi (Professor of History)
Christine Philliou (Associate Professor of History)
Asad Q. Ahmed (CMES Chair and Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies), ex officio