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Castaner
  • Managing Partner

  • CCFA Partners Inc.

  • United States


Steve Castaner uses his experience as an economic and community development director, city administrator and federal official to apply pragmatic strategies to local, long-term disaster recovery. As FEMA Region VII Federal Disaster Recovery Officer and Long-Term Community Recovery Director, Castaner provided leadership and expert-level assistance to recovery operations throughout the country. He held leadership roles forsignificant long-term recovery operations in Greensburg, Kansas, the Iowa and Missouri Floods of 2008, Rita/Katrina hurricanes, Joplin, Missouri and many others where many of the concepts now employed in the National Disaster Recovery Framework were pioneered. Castaner is widely regarded for his ability to coordinate and cooperate with other federal, state and local agencies. In Joplin, he teamed with the Business and Civic Leadership Center and the National Economic Recovery Support Function to create a comprehensive investment partners conference that involved the US Chamber of Commerce, several national foundations and federal and state agencies to spur community recovery projects. Steve has presented recovery concepts, principles and applications at conferences across the country.

Castaner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications from Central Missouri State University and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Missouri.