The General Body of members of BAFED is collectively responsible for policy-planning, guidance and decision-making with regard to plans and procedures. The administration and management of BAFED is vested in a seven member Executive Board, elected by the General Body for a period of two years. The Executive Secretary is responsible for day-to-day administration.

BAFED is a research organization of highly qualified professionals of different disciplines drawn from the Universities and other specialized institutions and organizations. Majority of its member hold Ph.D degree in Education and in other disciplines, posses long experience of teaching at post graduate level and vast experience as consultants at the national and international levels. They have diversified research experience particularly in different areas of education. BAFED is one of the few organizations of its type in Bangladesh which has a galaxy of in-house intellectuals capable of accomplishing research and other professional assignments of superior quality. Many of them have already proved themselves worthy in this regard. At present BAFED has nine Research Assistants. Among them, four have Bachelors (Hons) and Master degree in Education and the others have Master degree in different disciplines. All the Research Assistants have extensive field survey and monitoring experiences. The Research Assistants of the Forum are well experienced in data coding and entry.

BAFED is housed in a centrally located area with enough office space, training venue, Computer and other facilities. In its training room, 30 trainees can be trained at a time. It has a number of personal computer for data management and office use. Its office is well equipped with telephone, e-mail and website facilities.