Craig J. Regelbrugge is Vice President for Government Relations & Research for the American Nursery & Landscape Association (ANLA), the Washington, DC based trade association representing over 2,000 firms who grow, sell, and use landscape plants. He is responsible for directing the association's regulatory advocacy, industry issues management, and grassroots programs.

Craig has served in an advisory role on a number of committees and projects significant to the nursery industry. He served as co-chair of the Safeguarding American Plant Resources project, which reviewed USDA efforts to keep serious foreign plant pests from entering the U.S. He represents the entire nursery industry on the National Plant Board's Quarantine & Nursery Standards Committee and as the Nursery/Greenhouse Commodity Chair for the North American Plant Protection Organization's (NAPPO) U.S. industry advisory group (IAG). Craig also chairs the overall U.S. IAG. This group establishes the framework for trade in nursery and greenhouse crops and other plant products into and within North America. He also represents the industry on the IR-4 Project's Commodity Liaison Committee. IR-4 supports the registration of pesticides for minor use food crops and nursery crops.

Before joining the ANLA staff, Craig was an Agricultural Extension Agent for Fairfax County, Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Immediately after college, he worked as a horticulturist with Merrifield Garden Center in Merrifield, Virginia.

Craig received a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture (Cum Laude) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1986. He is a Virginia Certified Nurseryman, and member of the American Society of Horticultural Science, and the American Society of Association Executives.