April 27, 2020 – With the MN Governor Walz STAY HOME order still in place, we have CANCELLED all face to face club activities for May. We will keep you posted on status for our future meetings. To help club members keep connected, share our optimism and bring some positivity to your day we will hold our monthly club lunch meeting using Zoom technology, during these unprecedented times.
On May 8th we are still planning on Steve Young of the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table, an international network of experienced business leaders who advocate a principled approach to global capitalism to be our featured speaker. Please see his bio below.
Members please watch for an email invitation to our virtual lunch gathering.
Thank You in advance for your help and understanding during these very challenging times. I remind you to focus on your health, family, friends and community with optimism and to live the Optimist Creed.
Yours in Optimism,
Terry K Gorman
Club President
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. Advisors to the Caux Round Table include Paul Volcker, John C. Whitehead, William Donaldson and Rodrick M. Hills. The Caux Round Table has representatives across the global economy and leadership teams in 10 countries.
Young has published Moral Capitalism, a well-received book written as a guide to use of the Caux Round Table ethical and socially responsible Principles for Business. In 2008 Prof. Sandra Waddock of the Carroll School of Management of Boston College listed Young among the 23 persons who created the corporate social responsibility movement in her book The Difference Makers.
At Young’s initiative, the Caux Round Table is pioneering an Academy for Public Service in Minnesota. Steve Young is married to Pham Thi Hoa and they have three grown children. Young was born on Nov 2, 1945 in Washington D.C. He was educated at the International School Bangkok, Harvard College (graduating Magna Cum Laud) and Harvard Law School (graduating Cum Laud).
Young volunteered for service during the Vietnam War. After a year of language training, he worked in village development for the CORDS Advisory program in South Vietnam from 1968 to 1971. In 1975 Young took the initiative to begin the resettlement program of refugees from Indochina after the Vietnam War was lost.
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. As a private attorney Young was special counsel seeking return of $445 million in legal fees from the Minnesota Tobacco Litigation. He has been Senior Consultant for Personnel Decisions, the Honorary Consul of Singapore in Minnesota from 1990 to 1996, a lawyer with Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett in New York City, Winthrop and Weinstein in St Paul, Mahoney, Hagberg & Rice and Hillstrom Bale Anderson Young Polstein & Pearson in Minneapolis. He served as the court appointed arbitrator for Minnesota in the Prudential Securities litigation over limited partnerships.
Young has served on the boards of the John Vessey Leadership Academy, a charter school in St Paul, Minnesota, Ready4K, an advocacy group promoting the benefits of early childhood education, the Citizens League, Resources for Child Caring, Vietnam’s Women Memorial, Vietnam Social Service, Minnesota Sons of the Revolution and as Chair of United Arts in St Paul and the Minnesota Museum of Art. He is the founding board chair of the Center of the American Experiment. He was a member of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City. In 1996 he ran for nomination by the Republican Party to seek the office of Senator of the United States. 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, and with Prof. Abdullah Al-Ahsan has edited a book on Qur’anic Guidance for Good Governance.
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.
When: Friday, May 8th, 2020
From: 11:00 to 1:30 PM