Stephen M. Young (diplomat)

Stephen Young
Director of the American Institute in Taiwan
In office 2006–2009
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Douglas H. Paal
Succeeded by	William A. Stanton
United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
In office 2003–2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	John Martin O'Keefe
Succeeded by	Marie L. Yovanovitch
Personal details
Born	Stephen Markley Young 1951 Washington, D.C.
Alma mater	Wesleyan University (B.A.) University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D)

Stephen Markley Young (born 1951) is an American diplomat who 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 was 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. He was a member of the faculty at the National Defense University's Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, located at Fort Lesley J. McNair.^[1] Young served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic from 2003 to 2005.