| Commission name (nomination) | Nominated by | Suggested chair | |
| 1 | Art and Cartography | Canada | Taien Ng-Chan |
| 2 | Atlases | Switzerland | René Sieber |
| 3 | Cartographic Heritage into the Digital | Hungary | Mátyás Gede |
| 4 | Cartography and Children | Brazil | Carla Sena |
| 5 | Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management | China | Liu Jiping |
| 6 | Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization | Australia | Amy Griffin |
| 7 | Education and Training | China | Tao Wang |
| 8 | Generalisation and Multiple Representations | France | Guillaume Touya |
| 9 | Geospatial Analysis and Modeling | USA | Xiaobai Angela Yao |
| 10 | Geospatial Semantics | USA | Dalia Varanka |
| 11 | History of Cartography | USA | Imre Josef Demhardt |
| 12 | Location Based Services | China | Haosheng Huang |
| 13 | Map Design | USA | Ian Muehlenhaus |
| 14 | Map Production and Geoinformation Management | South Africa | Peter Schmitz |
| 15 | Map Projections | USA | Lynn Usery |
| 16 | Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People | Brazil | Waldirene Ribeiro |
| 17 | Maps and the Internet | Czech Republic | Otakar Čerba |
| 18 | Marine Cartography | Australia | Marine Cartography |
| 19 | Mountain Cartography | Slovenia | Dušan Petrovič |
| 20 | Open Source Geospatial Technologies | Brazil | Silvana Comboim |
| 21 | Planetary Cartography | Germany | Andrea Naß |
| 22 | SDI and Standards | South Africa | Serena Coetzee |
| 23 | Sensor-driven mapping | Canada | Jonathan Li |
| 24 | Topographic Mapping | United Kingdom | Alexander Kent |
| 25 | Toponymy | Austria | Peter Jordan |
| 26 | Ubiquitous Mapping | Japan | Yoshiki Wakabayashi |
| 27 | User Experience | USA | Robert Roth |
| 28 | Visual Analytics | USA, Switzerland | Anthony Robinson, Arzu Çöltekin (co-chairs) |
Terms of references (English version) – last time updated: 5 May 2019
Terms of references (French version) – uploaded: 29 June 2019
