Christopher John Sharpsten is a retired

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who most recently served as the Deputy Director of Supply, Production and Distribution for the

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COVID-19 prevention and treatment logistics program from July 2020 to July 2021. Previously, he served as the Director of Logistics of the

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from August 2018 to June 2020. Sharpsten earned a

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degree in civil engineering from the

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in 1988. He later received a Master of Business Administration degree in material and logistics management-operations from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at

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in 1997 and a Master of Science degree in national security strategy from the

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in 2010. Listed as Special Assistant to the Director of the Army Staff on the roster of Army general officers from 2020 to 2021, Sharpsten was in fact serving as deputy director of supply, production and distribution for the Department of Defense COVID-19 prevention and treatment logistics program led by General

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