Steven J. Green
| Steven J. Green | |
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| 12th United States Ambassador to Singapore | |
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In office November 18, 1997 – March 1, 2001 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Timothy Chorba |
| Succeeded by | Frank Lavin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 17, 1945 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothea Langhans |
Steven J. Green (born 1945) is an American businessman and Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Singapore in Miami, Florida. He was the United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1997 to 2001.
Green was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Miami and New York Institute of Finance. He is married to Dorothea Green (née Langhans). He has two daughters. One is an attorney whom also partakes in horseback riding and won a big horse competition, and the other daughter is chairman of the Green Family Foundation
He is married to former Miss New York and model, Dorothea Langhans whom he met at the Miss Universe pageant.
Green has participated in many business ventures. In the 1980s, he managed E-II Holdings, a company that had been forced into bankruptcy because of its junk bond debts. The company received an infusion of capital from Leon Black, resulting in its emergence from bankruptcy.
From 1988 to 1996, Green was Chairman and CEO of Samsonite Corporation. He was also Chairman and CEO of Astrum International from 1990 to 1995. During this time, Astrum operated Samsonite as a subsidiary as well as Culligan Water. Both Samsonite and Culligan were spun off as separate publicly owned companies in 1995.
As chairman of Astrum, Green directed the company's expansion into emerging markets in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and the Middle East. In 1992, he was Chairman and CEO when the company opened the first American retailing store in Red Square, Moscow.
President Clinton appointed Green to the President's Export Council in 1995.
On November 18, 1997, Green was sworn in as United States Ambassador to Singapore, a position that he would hold until March 1, 2001. A political appointee of President Bill Clinton, he stayed on as Ambassador during the early days of the administration of President George W. Bush.
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