The ELI Council is now comprised of the following members:
- Yannis Avgerinos
- Francesco Avolio
- Elena Bargelli
- Yuri Biondi
- Robert Bray
- Christoph Busch
- Georges Cavalier
- Nikolaos Chatzinikolaou
- Mark Clough
- Mario Comba
- Andra Cotiga-Raccah
- Olga Cvejic Jancic
- Nada Dollani
- Anne Birgitte Gammeljord
- Athina Giannakoula
- Laura Guercio
- Paola Iamiceli
- Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi
- Ana Keglevic Steffek
- Miklós Király
- Andries Klip
- Philip Moser
- Damjan Možina
- Pascal Pichonnaz
- Reiner Schulze
- Matthias Storme
- John Thomas
- Verica Trstenjak
- John Vervaele
- Friedrich Graf von Westphalen
The remaining Council members, whose mandate lasts until 2019, are as follows:
- Christian Alunaru
- Josef Azizi
- Christian von Bar
- Hugh Beale
- Maja Brkan
- Remo Caponi
- Marc Clément
- Walter Doralt
- Sjef van Erp
- Johan Gernandt
- Paul Gilligan
- Hrádek, Jiri
- Marta Infantino
- Francisco Javier Jiménez Munoz
- Tatjana Josipović
- Corrado Malberti
- Maarten Meijer
- Katharina Miller
- Denis Philippe
- Meliha Povlakic
- Albert Ruda
- Raffaele Sabato
- Hans Schulte-Nölke
- John Sorabji
- Harry Stamelos
- Diana Wallis
- Christiane Wendehorst
- Marek Wierzbowski
- Bostjan Zalar
- Irina Zlatescu