The International Life Cycle Board (ILCB) is the governing body of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. The ILCB decides on the work plan and carries out the supervision of all work elements. The ILCB meets twice a year, unless conditions and activities dictate additional meetings. The two founding organisations, UNEP and SETAC appointed the first ILCB members. Subsequent members are appointed and approved by the ILCB itself.

ILCB voting members

Founding partners:

• Guido Sonnemann (UNEP DTIE SCP, representing Sylvie Lemmet, UNEP DTIE Director), Chair
• Mike Mozur (SETAC Global Executive Director), Co-chair

Supporting partners (relevant regional partners and international NGOs; listed alphabetically according to organization):

• Atsushi Inaba (AIST Japan, Vice-chair)
  
• Cassia Ugaya (Brazilian Life Cycle Association)
• Daniel Normandin (CIRAIG Canada, Global Alliance for Life Cycle Centers GALAC)
• Ana Quiros (EcoGlobal Costa Rica)
• Vinod Sharma (Indira Ghandi Institute of Development and Research)
• Matthias Finkbeiner (ISO, Technical University Berlin)
• David Pennington (JRC European Commission)
• Wang Hongtao (Sichuan University, China)
• Tom McKone (SETAC, UC Berkeley School of Public Health)
• Ram Toolseeram (University of Mauritius)
  
• Jane Bare and Mary-Ann Curran (US EPA)

Sponsoring partners (platinum level, listed alphabetically according to organization):

• Mike Levy (APC) and Aafko Sachsema (Plastics Europe)
• Marco Buletti (BAFU Switzerland)
• Ulf Jaeckel (BMU Germany)
• Abdelhadi Sahoune (ExxonMobil Chemical)
• Liselotte Schebek (FZK Germany)
• Jon Atherton (ICMM)
• Alain Dubreuil (Natural Resources Canada)
• Mark Goedkoop (Pre Consultants)
• Emmanuele Austin (Veolia)
• Larry Williams (worldsteel)

Sponsoring partners (gold level):

• Pere Fullana (Escola Superior de Comerc International, Barcelona)
  

The ILCB is hosted by UNEP DTIE and supported by SETAC

• Sonia Valdivia (UNEP DTIE, Secretariat)
• Will Bruce Vigon (SETAC North America)

The inaugural meeting of the ILCB took place together with the launch of the initiative by  Klaus Töpfer  who was then UNEP's Executive Director at UNEP's 7th High Level Seminar on Cleaner Production on 28 April 2002. Since then, the ILCB has been meeting on a regular basis to plan the agenda of the Life Cycle Initiative.