Officers of the Society are drawn from the Membership. The Main Committee comprises a President, Secretary and Treasurer, who have a three year term of office. The Secretary and Treasurer may seek re-election for a second term of three years. The main committee also includes the editors of the Journal, Special Publications and Newsletter, as well as the Membership Secretary, Webmaster, Publicity Officer and Archivist. They are elected for a two year term of office and are eligible to stand for a second term. At each main committee meeting a representative of each specialist group must be present. Group Representative positions are normally held for two years.

The first committee meeting was held in 1971 (Leslie Moore as Chairman and Bernard Owens as Secretary/Treasurer), and the inaugural meeting took place in association with the Geological Society in Sheffield ('Microfossils and British Stratigraphy') during March of that year.

The Main Committee 2007-2008

President:  Michal Kucera (Universität Tuebingen)
Secretary:  David J. Horne (University of London)	Treasurer:  Jackie Lees (University College London)	Journal Editor:  John Gregory (PetroStrat Ltd & The Natural History Museum)	Special Publications Editor: Daniela Schmidt (University of Bristol)

Special Publications Editor: Jeremy Young (The Natural History Museum, London)	Membership Secretary: Clive Jones (The Natural History Museum, London)	Newsletter Editor:  Ian Slipper (University of Greenwich)	Webmaster:  Andrew S. Henderson (The Natural History Museum, London)

Publicity Officer: Mark Williams (University of Liecester)	Archivist: Richard Hodgkinson (The Natural History Museum, London)

x Group Representatives 2007-2008
Foraminifera Group Chair Kate Darling (University of Edinburgh)	Foraminifera Group Secretary Daniela Schmidt (University of Bristol)	Microvertebrate Group Chair Howard Armstrong (University of Durham)	Microvertebrate Group Secretary Robert Raine (University of Birmingham)
Nannofossil Group Chair Karl-Heinz Baumann (Universität Bremen)	Nannofossil Group Secretary Tom Dunkley Jones (University College London)	Ostracod Group Chair Giles Miller (The Natural History Museum, London)	Ostracod Group Secretary John Whittaker (The Natural History Museum, London)
Palynology Group Chair Ian Harding (National Oceanography Centre)	Palynology Group Secretary Duncan McLean (MB Stratigraphy)	Silicofossil Group Chair David Lazarus (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)	Silicofossil Group Secretary Richard Pearce (National Oceanography Centre)