Panelist
Steven B. Young (Moderator)
Global Executive Director, Caux Round Table
Stephen B. Young became the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table in 2000. He wrote the book Moral Capitalism to explicate the economic and moral approach of the Caux Round Table to free market capitalism. Moral Capitalism integrated the moral sense theory of Adam Smith with other theories of moral philosophy and economics. It has been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Croat and Polish.
In 2008, Young was named one of the 23 persons who developed the corporate social responsibility movement by Professor Sandra Waddock in her book, The Difference Makers. For the Caux Round Table, Young drafted a set of ethical Principles for Government, edited a set of ethical Principles for NGOs, and wrote a set of ethical Principles for the Ownership of Wealth. To support training in the Principles for Government, Young wrote the monograph Moral Government which was translated into Spanish.
Under Young’s stewardship, the Caux Round Table developed country chapters, developed a unique management tool for corporate social responsibility, the Arcturus assessment instrument, and an assessment instrument to help individuals act more ethically, the Ethical Leadership Profile.
Young was born on November 2, 1945 in Washington, DC to Kenneth Todd and Patricia Morris Young. On his father’s side Young is descended from Winthrop Young of the New Hampshire militia who took the Association Test in April 1775 to oppose with arms the operations of His Majesties Armies in the north American colonies. His mother is a collateral descendent of both Louis Morris, a signer of the American Declaration of Independence, and Gouvernor Morris, a Framer of the Constitution of the United States of America.
In 1966, Young discovered the ancient bronze age culture of Ban Chiang, Thailand, by tripping over a tree root on a small path in Ban Chiang village in Udorn-Thani province. Bronze, iron, and remarkable pottery were found at the site, with the earliest artifacts dating from some 2,300 years before the common era. The site of Ban Chiang has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Young received his AB degree from Harvard College in 1967 and his JD degree from the Harvard Law School in 1974. While in the Harvard Law School, Young was made a term member and then a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also authored a study of the history of impeachment that was influential in the impeachment proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon. Young’s thesis was that impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors was a proceeding for abuse of trust by removing an officer from holding his or her office of public trust.
Young served for the American Agency for International Development in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, working on village government reforms and economic development. Young developed unusual relationships with the Tan DaiViet Party of Vietnamese nationalists who formulated the strategy of pacification, rural development and constitutional reform that defeated the Communist insurgency in South Vietnam. Young’s work on village community development was recognized in his book on the Vietnam War by CIA Director William Colby and Young’s understanding of the realities of the Vietnam War were admired by President Richard Nixon, who asked Young to advise him in the writing of his book No More Vietnams.
Upon the fall of South Vietnam in April 1975, Young initiated with the help of his friends then working in the United States State Department efforts to accept refugees fleeing the Communist military conquest of South Vietnam. In 1978, Young was a member of the Citizens Commission for Indochinese Refugees. This effort facilitated to the flight of over 1 million Vietnamese from Communist rule and more from the killing fields of Cambodia and Communist repression in Laos.
Young arranged for the Ford Foundation to sponsor a translation project at the Harvard Law School that translated into English Vietnam’s Le Dynasty Imperial Law Code of 1433. This Code demonstrates conclusively the unique national characteristics of the Vietnamese people in distinction to Chinese patterns of more authoritarian and patriarchal rule. In this translation project, Young worked closely with Nguyen Ngoc Huy, the leader of Vietnam’s Tan Dai Viet Party and principal architect of South Vietnam’s successful pacification and development program from 1968 to 1972 that defeated the Communist guerilla war in that country. At this time, Young was an Assistant Dean at the Harvard Law School where he also co-wrote with Nguyen Ngoc Huy a study of human rights values and practices in traditional Vietnam and China, Human Rights in Traditional China and Vietnam, published by Yale Southeast Asian studies.
From 1980 to 1987, Young was Dean of the Hamline University School of Law and secured that young law school’s acceptance by bench and bar as a school of promise and quality initiatives. While Dean, Young initiated the Journal on Law and Religion. This Journal was undertaken to provide a jurisprudential alternative to the nihilistic implications of the positive law tradition in legal theory and practice.
In 1989, as a member of a study group at the Council on Foreign Relations, Young suggested the remedy of an interim United Nations Administration for Cambodia to wean both China and Vietnam away from their proxy war in Cambodia. From 1990 to 1996 Young was the Honorary Consul of Singapore in Minnesota.
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Keynote
Harry Debes
Panelists
Stephen B. Young
Sara Criger
Bonnie Holub
Douglas A. Johnson
Mark Stutrud
Peter Vaill |
