Steven D. Sklenka

With a military career spanning nearly four decades, Lieutenant General Sklenka recently retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after serving as Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics. Commissioned in 1988 upon graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.S. in History, he has held extensive leadership roles across the Operating Forces, joint commands and senior policy staff.

His command assignments include Commanding General of the 1st Marine Logistics Group, Commanding Officer of Combat Logistics Regiment-15 in Afghanistan, and Commanding Officer of CLB-11. Outside the Operating Forces, Lieutenant General Sklenka served as Deputy Commander and J5 Strategic Planning Director for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Principal Director for South and Southeast Asia in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and Deputy J4 at U.S. Special Operations Command. His global operational service spans deployments for Operations Desert Storm, Restore Hope (Somalia), Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan).

He holds master's degrees from the Naval War College and American Military University, completed military executive education at the Air War College and Naval Command and Staff College, and served as a CMC Fellow at CSIS. He also completed the Timothy T. Day Foundation Executive Fellowship at Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.