Steve Lewis is a retired US Army officer with over 30 years of enlisted and commissioned service. He served for 17 years as an US Army Civil Affairs officer in both special operations and conventional units. His assignments include deployments to Asia and Latin America. His last assignment before retirement was as the chief of US Southern Command’s Civil Affairs Planning Division.

Steve is a graduate of Arizona State University with a BS in Economics and the Naval Postgraduate School with an MS is Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict.

Steve is currently serving as a humanitarian operational planner with the US Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. As a operational planner he is focused on complex crises in Europe and Africa.