Stephen M. Young

Stephen Markley Young (Chinese: 楊甦棣; 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 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. 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. Young was U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic from 2003 to 2005.