Jean-Baptiste Joly is Chairman of the Board of Akademie Schloss Solitude Foundation, Founding Director and Artistic Director of the Akademie. He is also Honorary Professor at the School of Art Weißensee, College of Design, Berlin. In Addition, he is a board member of various foundations, among others the Merkur Stiftung and the Rudolf Eberle Stiftung. Furthermore, Jean-Baptiste Joly is a member of the board of trustees of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, a member of the advisory board of Transcultural Exchange Boston, and a member of the board of Res Artis.