The International Committee of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) was officially launched at the 1990 Mennonite World Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba as a partnership of global Mennonite Brethren conferences.
ICOMB was originated by MBMS International in Curitiba, Brazil in 1988 as a framework for worldwide MB conferences to relate as peers rather than as mission churches under the structure of MBMS International.
In 2005, Victor Wall, president of the Paraguay-German Mennonite Brethren Conference, was chosen to be the first Executive Secretary of ICOMB. He completed his term in 2010. In 2011 David Wiebe of Canada was chosen to be Executive Secretary. He resigned from his position as Executive Director of the Canadian Mennonite Brethren Conference in 2010.