The center implements the director-responsible system, and has an advisory committee. The director of the center is Professor Yang Kaifeng, dean of the School of Public Administration, Renmin University of China.

The list of advisory committee is as follows (in no particular order),

Marc Holzer, Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Management at Rutgers University.

Geert Bouckaert, President of the International Society for Administrative Sciences and professor of public Administration at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Liu Guocai, Chairman of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida and former President of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA).

Donald Moynihan, Dean of La Folette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; President of The Institute of Public Administration; Member of the American Academy of Administrative Sciences.

Evan Berman, Professor at the School of Government, University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Richard Feiock, Professor at Florida State University and editor-in-chief of the Public Administration Review.

Gao Xiaoping, Former executive Vice President and secretary General of The Chinese Society of Public Administration.

Baojing, Executive vice President and secretary General of The Chinese Society for Public Administration and President and editor-in-chief of the China Journal of Public Administration.

Liu Xutao, Professor, National Academy of Administration.

Zhou Zhiren, Professor, School of Government, Peking University.

Yu Jianxing, Dean and professor of the School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University.

Bao Guoxian, Honorary Dean, School of Management, Lanzhou University.