President of the Association : Mr. Hinrich Wolff ,Germany
Vice Presidents of the Association : Mr. Ikuo Ozawa, Japan , and Dr. Musa Karama, Sudan
Treasurer: Mrs. Ulrike Singelmann, Germany
The AIPG Secretariat is located at WGA (Association of Wholesale- and Foreign Traders) Hamburg, Germany. The Secretary and Legal Adviser is the lawyer Mr. Lutz Düshop.
The Scientific Adviser is Professor Glyn O. Phillips, Chairman of the Food Hydrocolloids Trust and Editor of the Journal "Food Hydrocollids".
The Association is pursuing its work in three sections, i.e. producers/ exporters of gum Arabic; processors/ importers/ brokers of gum Arabic; producers/ importers/ brokers of all other gums such as gum karaya, tragacanth etc.,
