Stephen Green

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Stephen Green (2006)

Stephen Keith Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint (born November 7, 1948 ) is a British bank manager , ordained priest of the Anglican Church and politician. Until the end of 2010 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the largest private bank in the world, HSBC Holdings plc . From 2011 to 2013 he was Secretary of Commerce in the Cameron government.

Life

Green studied at private Lancing College and the University of Oxford . He also holds a Masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In 2010, Green received an honorary doctorate from the University of London, SOAS College , in Economics for his moral orientation and encouraging exchanges between SOAS and HSBC. The City University of London awarded him an honorary doctorate in July 2011.

Green began his professional career in the British Ministry of Overseas Development (now the Department for International Development ). In 1977 he moved to the consulting firm McKinsey , where he worked in Europe, North America and the Middle East.

In 1982 he joined the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), where he was initially responsible for corporate development activities, and from 1985 for the development of the bank 's global treasury operations. In 1992 he became Group Treasurer of HSBC, responsible for all corporate assets and global capital market operations.

In March 1998, Green was appointed to the Board of Management of HSBC Holding, where he was Executive Director of Investment Banking and Markets and was responsible for the investment and private client business and asset management activities of the HSBC Group. In May 2002 he also took on responsibility for the group's corporate customer business. On June 1, 2003, he became CEO of the HSBC Group. From January 2005 Green was Chairman of HSBC Bank plc, the group's European arm.

On July 7, 2005, he was appointed by the UK Prime Minister to serve as one of the trustees of the British Museum's board of directors for a four-year term .

On November 28, 2005, HSBC announced that Green will succeed the previous Chairman of the HSBC Group, Sir John Bond , who resigned on May 26, 2006 and joined Vodafone in July of that year .

On September 7, 2010, HSBC informed the public about Green's move into politics. He resigned as Group Chairman of HSBC on December 3, 2010, and was replaced by Douglas Flint .

Until he switched to politics, Green was chairman of the British Bankers Association . In this office he was succeeded by Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius.

He was also director of the Bank of Bermuda, HSBC Mexico and HSBC Limited, all of which belong to the HSBC Group, chairman of HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) SA and HSBC North America Holdings Inc., and former deputy chairman of the board of HSBC Trinkaus in Germany & Burkhardt AG and former board member of HSBC SA.

In September 2010 it was announced that he would join the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats government in early 2011 as unpaid Minister of State for Trade and Investment . On November 16, 2010 he was named Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint , of Hurstpierpoint in the County of West Sussex, to life peer and on November 22nd a member of the House of Lords . He was Minister of State for Trade and Investment in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from January 11, 2011 to December 11, 2013 .

On February 14, 2015, Stephen Green resigned from his post on the Advisory Board of the British Bankers Association as a result of the Swiss Leaks tax affair.

Green is married and has two siblings, two daughters and seven grandchildren. He is ordained in the Church of England .

Fonts (selection)

  • Serving God? Serving Mammon? Marshall Pickering, London 1996, ISBN 055102982X
  • Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World. Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 1-84614-236-9
  • True values. About morals, money and the future. Finanzbuchverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89879-561-6
  • Reluctant master. How Germany's past is shaping its European future , The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2014, ISBN 9781908323682 .
  • Dear Germany. Declaration of love to a country with a past , Theiss, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 9783806236330 . Translated from the English by Michael Haupt.

Web links

Commons : Stephen Green  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary graduates chronological. City University London, accessed January 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Mr. Stephen Green. Archived from the original on September 22, 2008 ; accessed on January 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ HSBC announces new leadership team. HSBC Holdings plc , September 24, 2010, archived from the original on October 21, 2014 ; accessed on January 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Experienced banker takes Government trade role. UK Trade & Investment , September 8, 2010, archived from the original on September 13, 2010 ; accessed on October 15, 2014 (English).
  5. ^ The London Gazette. Issue: 59609. November 19, 2010, p. 22333 , accessed on October 15, 2014 (English).
  6. ↑ Sueddeutsche.de:Ex-HSBC-Chef Green resigns
  7. ↑ See the dedication of his book Dear Germany (Darmstadt 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Green, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Stephen Keith, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1948