The Chief Executive of the Association is Julian Mund, who joined the PLSA as Commercial Services Director at the end of September 2013.

The Policy Board, created in October 2018 following a review of the PLSA's governance arrangements, is the Association's main policy-making body.

The PLSA's Annual Conference and Exhibition is held in October and alternates between the ACC Liverpool and Manchester Central, attracting around 1500 attendees.

[3] Speakers come primarily from the UK and European government, the pensions and investment industries and relevant areas of economics and science.

Bob Geldof gave the keynote speech at the Annual Conference and Exhibition in Liverpool in 2014[4] and Andrew Marr[5] appeared in 2018.