The executive Advisory Group offers strategic guidance to the core team, particularly in relation to the wider development agenda, legacy and sustainability. It meets annually to keep the project on track, identify and advise on any emerging difficulties, and discuss the Network's draft annual report. Individual members also consult on their particular fields of expertise.
- Ms Maysoon Al-Damluji, Chair of Iraq National Parliament's Committee on Media and Culture
- Dr Lynda Albertson, CEO of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Ms Clare Bebbington, Director of the John Smith Trust
- Dr Robert Bewley, Director of the Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa project, University of Oxford
- Dr Ellen McAdam, Director of Birmingham Museums Trust
- Professor Diana Laurillard, Centre for Global Higher Education, UCL Institute of Education
- Professor Henrietta Moore, Director of the Centre for Global Prosperity, UCL and the RELIEF ESRC-GCRF Centre
- Ms Carolyn Perry, Director of the MBI Al Jaber Foundation and Chair of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia