The administrative affairs of the Otorhinolaryngological Research Society are overseen by the ORS Council - a democratically elected committee of academic members, comprising of surgeons, a statistician and a pure scientist. Council meetings are held biannually, on the morning of each ORS meeting. Vacant council positions are announced to Society members in advance of each meeting, and candidates are elected into position by way of a members vote at the end of each Society meeting.

The present society council comprises as follows:

Martin Burton	President
Iain Swan	Immediate Past President
Justin Weir	President Elect
Mat Daniel	Hon. Secretary
James O'Hara	Hon. Treasurer
Mahmood Bhutta	Trainee Rep
Debi Vickers	Scientist
Andrew Lavens	Webmaster
Arvind Arya	Council Member
Terry Jones	Council Member
Doug Hartley	Council Member
Anne Schilder	Clinical Trials Network Advisor
Martin Birchall (ex officio)	Representative of UCL Ear institute
George Browning (ex officio)	Editor, Clinical Otolaryngology
Shak Saeed	BSAO president
Doris Bamiou	Audiology advisor
Prof Linda Luxon (ex officio)	Audiovestibular medicine