In 2007, INED has a staff of 200, including 60 tenured researchers, 110 technicians and engineers, plus around 20 PhD students and associate researchers. Like other French public research institutions, INED has two categories of researchers – research officers and research directors – each comprising two grades. As of January 2000, INED comprises 11 research units and several departments (surveys, library and documentation, publications, IT, etc.) A statistical methods department was set up in January 2007.

INED directors

• 1945-1962: Alfred Sauvy (1898-1990)
• 1962-1971: Jean Bourgeois-Pichat (1912-1990)
• 1972-1992: Gérard Calot (1934-2001)
• 1992-1995: Jacques Magaud (1940- )
• 1995-1998: Patrick Festy (1945- )
• since 1999: François Héran (1953- ).

Chairman of the Board of Administration:

• Since 1999: Bernard Pêcheur, member of the Conseil d'Etat

Chairman of the Scientific Council:

• 2001-2006: Guillaume Wunsch, professor at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), member of the Académie royale de Belgique
• Since 2006: Catherine Rollet, professor at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Chairman of the Evaluation Committee:

• 2001-2005: Alain Chenu, professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris

• Since 2005: Francesco Billari, professor at Bocconi University (Milan).

General sectretary:

• Since 2007: Bertrand Minault.