ESOF2008 has a committee-based structure with a local Project Team based at the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation in Barcelona.

Ingrid Wünning Tschol, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, Co-chair of the Steering Committee		Enric Banda, EuroScience, Strasbourg, Co-chair of the Steering Committee.
Colin Berry, Queen Mary, London, Chairman of the Programme Committee		Carl-Johan Sundberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Chairman of the Communication Committee