Stephen M. Young (diplomat)

Stephen Markley Young (Chinese: 楊甦棣; born 1951- ) is an American diplomat and was the Consul General of the Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong under the State department in the Obama administration.

He took office in March 2010. As Consul General, Young is responsible for the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. He was the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto United States embassy of Taiwan in Taipei, from March 18, 2006 to July 3, 2009. Recently, he was a member of the faculty at the National Defense University's Industrial College of the Armed Forces, located at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. Ambassador Young was U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic from 2003 to 2005.

Dr. Young was born in Washington D.C. and moved to Taiwan at age 12, where his father served as a military adviser to the Taiwanese army in Kaohsiung from 1963 to 1965. He was educated at Wesleyan University, where he received his B.A. and the University of Chicago, where he received an M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. (1980) in history.

Within the Department of State, he has served in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs and the Office of Soviet Affairs. He has been the Director of the Office of Caucasus and Security Affairs, the Director of the Office of Caucasus and Central Asian Affairs, the Director of the Office of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh Affairs, and the Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs.

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