Casey Wardynski has been assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs since January 2019. Previously, he was chief financial officer of a marketing event technology firm and earlier served as a school superintendent. He served for 30 years in the Army as a special weapons officer in Germany, the U.S. and Korea; an associate professor of economics at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; and director of the U.S. Army Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis. He is a 1980 graduate of West Point and holds a doctorate in policy analysis from the Frederick S. Pardee Rand Graduate School, California.