Jeb Brugmann is President of Globalegacy and a Founding Partner of The Next Practice.

He is a highly regarded expert on sustainable community and urban development. With a 20+ year career in the municipal and urban sector, he has worked directly with 49 cities or urban slum communities in 21 countries on their local sustainable development projects, and has scaled these activities into large, global programs.

In 1990, Brugmann founded the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), the international environmental agency for local government, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union of Local Authorities. He served as ICLEI’s Secretary General from 1991-2000. In this capacity, he founded the ‘Local Agenda 21’ movement, endorsed by 178 countries at the 1992 UN ‘Earth Summit’, which has engaged more than 6,400 communities in 113 countries in community-based development planning and implementation. In 1991, Brugmann also founded the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign, which has since involved more than 500 cities and towns in 50+ countries in a coordinated effort to quantify and reduce their local greenhouse gas emissions.

Trained as an economist and public administrator, Jeb holds a B.A. in economics with highest honors, specializing in regional economics, from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government.