Ambassador Steven J. Green

Board Member, The North American Institute

Steven J. Green served as the United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1998-2001. For more than 25 years, Ambassador Green, of Miami, Florida, was a leader in the field of corporate restructuring and development. He was an international industrialist, private investor and philanthropist as well as an active member of the President’s Export Council and a Director of the US-ASEAN Business Council.

Most recently, Ambassador Green was Chairman and CEO of Astrum International Corporation and its component companies, Samsonite, American Tourister and Culligan Water Technologies. He directed the international expansion of Astrum, including the opening of the first American retailing center in Moscow’s Red Square, major expansion of manufacturing facilities in Eastern Europe, the first U.S.-led water purification project in the West Bank, and major expansion of Samsonite and Culligan in India, China and Vietnam. As a member of the President’s Export Council, Ambassador Green created the Virtual Trade Mission, a multimedia program for high school and university students designed to increase understanding of the importance of trade and exports to the U.S. economy and the opportunities of the global marketplace.

He also directed the activities of the Green Family Foundation and served as a Director to a number of national and local Miami charities. Recently, the Green Family Foundation enabled the Florida International University to complete its new library and enhance its art museum.

Raised in Miami, he attended the University of Miami and the New York Institute of Finance. He was born on July 17, 1945, in Philadelphia, PA. He is married to the former Dorothea Langhans. They have two grown daughters: Andrea, a lawyer in San Diego, and Kimberly, an Executive Director of a charitable foundation in Miami.