The Board of Trustees is the supreme governing body of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and it exercises its authority directly or through the Executive Committee. The Board of Trustees is in charge, at the request of the Executive Committee, of the appointment and removal of the rector, vice-rectors, secretary general, director, the deans of faculties, directors of schools, university research institutes and study centres, and other members of the Board of Governors. It is also in charge of the ordinary and extraordinary annual budgets and spending.