Dr Steve Young
Stephen B. Young is the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table, an international network of experienced business leaders who advocate a principled approach to global capitalism.
Dr. Young has published Moral Capitalism, a well-received book written as a guide for the Caux Round Table regarding the ethical and socially responsible Principles for Business. He was educated at the International School Bangkok, Harvard College (graduating Magna Cum Laud) and Harvard Law School (graduating Cum Laud).
Dr. Young was an Assistant Dean at the Harvard Law School and later Dean and Professor of Law at the Hamline University Law School. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Convention of Independent Financial Advisors in Geneva and is a founder and a member of the Board of Magni Global Assets, an investment management firm. He is a member of the US Advisory Council to the Papal Fondazione Centemisus Annus, established by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II as a lay organization to promote Catholic Social Teachings.
Dr. Young currently is an adjunct professor teaching corporate social responsibility at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, and the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Young has also taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, Vietnamese history for the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota and Public Office as a Public Trust for Minnesota State University - Mankato. He has published articles on Chinese jurisprudence, the culture and politics of Vietnam and Thailand, legal education, law firm management, Native American law, the history of negligence, and the law of war. His most recent article on legal philosophy discusses the morality of American law. With Nguyen Ngoc Huy he wrote The Tradition of Human Rights in China and Vietnam (1990) and with Prof. Abdullah Al-Ahsan has edited a book on Qur’anic Guidance for Good Governance (2017). He has written numerous opinion articles for the Pioneer Press and the Minnesota Journal on Law and Politics and has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Minneapolis StarTribune, and the Minneapolis St Paul Business Journal.
