The current managers of the Smuts Memorial Fund:
| Nominating Body | Name |
| General Board | Professor Paul Lane |
| Council | Professor Samita Sen |
| Council | Professor Cameron Petrie (on sabbatical) |
| History | Professor Shruti Kapila |
| Economics and Politics | Professor Adam Branch |
| Earth Sciences & Geography | Dr Maan Barua |
| Archaeology & Anthropology | Dr Mike Degani |
| General Board | Professor Sujit Sivasundaram |
| Law | Dr Stelios Tofaris |
| English | Dr Chana Morgenstern |
| Co-opted by the Managers / Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History | Professor Saul Dubow |