Brian Buggé is Senior Advisor with International Risk Intelligence LLC, a leading international private intelligence firm specializing in corporate intelligence, security intelligence, global intelligence management, and advanced e-learning technologies. Mr. Buggé has over 30 years experience in law enforcement and risk management. Currently, he is Director of Security & School Safety with Edison Schools, Inc., the largest EMO (Education Management Organization) in the United States, serving hundreds of thousands of K-12 students through alliances, district partnerships, summer school programs and Charter Schools in over 21 states and the United Kingdom. If Edison Schools, Inc., was a school district (among the 15,000 school districts in the U.S.) it would be in the top 50 in size. Previously, Mr. Buggé was a Director at Kroll, Inc., one of the largest and most prestigious security-consulting firms in the world. At Kroll, he was involved in large-scale security audits, court approved
monitor ships, executive protection, terrorism awareness training and domestic/international investigations for major multinational corporations and the U.S. government.
Earlier, he was a Security Consultant with EDI, Ltd., where he performed sophisticated security surveys for the U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). He was also a Police Officer, Sergeant and staff assistant to the Chief of Patrol with the Suffolk County (NY) Police Department. He was nationally recognized as an expert on “Community/Problem-Oriented Policing” and he became a trainer/consultant with the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) in Washington, D.C. He was also a New York City Correction Officer and an Investigative Aide with the U.S. Secret Service. Mr. Buggé is a licensed Private Investigator, a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), a certified trainer in “Non-Violent Crisis Intervention,” a New York State Certified Police and Security Guard Instructor, a Certified Protection Officer (CPO) and Certified Protection Officer Instructor (CPOI), and he has been trained and certified in both basic and advanced Crime Prevention techniques by the New York State Bureau of Municipal Police Training and the FBI. Mr. Buggé is a professionally published author and an active member of The Authors Guild, Inc. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor on the faculty of Suffolk County Community College and he currently teaches courses online at both The University of Phoenix (“Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice” and “Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice”) and Southwestern College (“Personnel Investigations”). In 2003, Mr. Buggé helped form the Northeast Chapter of ATAP (Association of Threat Assessment Professionals) and he currently serves on its Board. Mr. Buggé received his BS in Police Science and his MA in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY).
Newsday chronicled one of Mr. Buggé’s investigations in a story entitled “Tale of the Tapes.” In it he was described as a “…workaholic amalgam of street cop and intellectual.” The story went on to win the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.
