Ben Grumbles has been ECOS Executive Director since June 2022 but served as an officer and active member of the association for almost a decade. From 2015 to May 2022, he was Secretary of the Environment for Maryland, serving as Chair of the Governor’s Chesapeake Bay Cabinet and the Maryland Climate Change Commission and Executive Committee Member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Ben has also served as President of the US Water Alliance, Director of Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator for Water, and Senior Staff and Counsel for the Transportation and Infrastructure and Science Committees in the U.S. Congress. He is an appointed advisor to the Division of Earth and Life Studies within the National Academies (Sciences, Engineering, Medicine) and a graduate of Wake Forest University, Emory University Law School (JD), and The George Washington University Law School (LLM).
- Email: bgrumbles@ecos.org
- Phone: 202-266-4929
