The highest governing body of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute (VWI) is the General Assembly. It usually convenes once a year to make all major structural decisions. These include adjustments to the organisational structure, budget approval and oversight, and the appointment of members of the Executive Board, the International Academic Advisory Board and the auditors.

The current members of the General Assembly are: Brigitte Bailer (Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance) Julane Bredtmann (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, IHRA) Ulrich Hörmann (OeAD ERINNERN:AT) Joanna Nittenberg (Association of Jews Persecuted by the Nazi Regime) Bertrand Perz (University of Vienna, Institute of Contemporary History) Claudia Prutscher (Jewish Community of Vienna) Margit Reiter (University of Salzburg, Department of History) Barbara Staudinger (Jewish Museum Vienna)