Mark Klugmann
ZEDE
Presidential Commissioner
Mark Klugmann was Speechwriter to Presidents Reagan and Bush (41). He also served as Assistant Director of the White House Outreach Working Group on Central America.
In Honduras, where he introduced the LEAP zone concept and "institutional leapfrogging" in 2002, he has advised three presidents. He serves on the governing board for the ZEDE development zones and is Co-Chairman of the statutory standing committee.
The creator of "reform praxis" methodology, he has advised seven democratically-elected presidents outside the United States and helped achieve multiple complex reforms. He has given expert testimony before legislative committees of four countries, including the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, and has lectured on public policy in 38 countries. He is visiting professor at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala.