Brigadier General Duke DeLuca (Ret.) is a seasoned senior executive with more than three decades of global leadership in complex engineering, construction, and federal resource-management enterprises. Over his 32-year Army career, he commanded organizations from platoon through division and led multi-billion-dollar civil and military construction programs across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Israel, and Africa. His culminating assignment was Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division and President of the Mississippi River Commission.

General DeLuca previously served as Commandant of the U.S. Army Engineer School, where he oversaw an enterprise delivering more than 285 courses annually and set Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, and Facilities standards for the Army’s engineer forces. He also represented the Executive Branch as the federal member or Chair of the Delaware, Susquehanna, and Potomac River Basin Commissions, shaping regional water-quality regulation and advancing multi-state environmental stewardship.

Today, he is a senior management consultant advising clients in the architecture, engineering and construction, logistics, defense, and federal-government sectors. His portfolio includes pioneering delivery of the Army’s BRAC 2005 surge—executing a $21B construction program on time and on budget—driving major privatization initiatives in Army housing and lodging, and advancing large-scale public-private partnerships in water resources management.

General DeLuca is a Senior Advisor with AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc. and The Roosevelt Group, and serves as an Adjunct Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He sits on five nonprofit boards, including the Army Engineer Association, the Federal Association for Insurance Reform Foundation, Clean PACE, TERRA Search Promise, and the National Association of Corporate Directors Research Triangle Chapter. He remains active with the Society of American Military Engineers and serves as a Trustee of the Penn Rugby Club.

He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering (University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science), Economics (The Wharton School), and International Affairs (Columbia University), and completed fellowships at Columbia University, the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies, and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.