Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint
Stephen K. Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint ( born November 7, 1948) is a British bank manager, an ordained priest of the Anglican Church and politicians. By the end of 2010 he was chairman of the board of the largest private bank in the world, HSBC Holdings plc.
Since the beginning of 2011 he held the office of Minister of Trade in the government of Cameron.
Life
Green studied at the private Lancing College and at the University of Oxford. He also has a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
2010 Green received an honorary doctorate from the University of London, SOAS College, in Economics for his moral orientation and to promote exchanges between SOAS and HSBC. The City University of London awarded him in July 2011 an honorary doctorate.
His professional career began in the Green British Department for International Development (Ministry of Overseas Development, now Department for International Development ). In 1977 he joined the consulting firm McKinsey, where he worked in Europe, North America and the Middle East.
In 1982, he went to Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC ), where he was initially responsible for activities in the area of corporate development from 1985 to the development of global treasury operations of the bank. He became Group Treasurer of HSBC, responsible for the overall corporate assets and the global capital market transactions in 1992.
In March 1998, Green was appointed to the Board of HSBC Holding, where he served as Executive Director of the investment banking and markets for investment and private banking and asset management activities of the HSBC Group. In May 2002, he assumed additional responsibility for the corporate business of the group. On June 1, 2003, he was CEO of HSBC Group. As of January 2005, Green Chairman ( Chairman ), HSBC Bank plc, the European branch of the group. On 28 November 2005, HSBC announced that the successor to the Green on 26 May 2006 and resigned in July of the year exchanged to become Chairman of Vodafone former Chairman of the HSBC Group, Sir John Bond is.
On 7 September 2010, HSBC Green's change in policy announced. In the Cameron government, he will take the post of Minister of Trade in early 2011.
Prior to joining the Green policy was Chairman of the British Bankers' Association ( British Bankers Association). In this office he was followed by Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius.
In addition, he was Director of all members of the HSBC Group banks Bank of Bermuda, HSBC Mexico and HSBC Limited, Chairman of HSBC Private Banking Holdings ( Suisse) SA and HSBC North America Holdings Inc., and former deputy chairman of the German HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG and a former board member of the HSBC SA.
Green is married and has two siblings and two daughters. He is ordained in the Church of England. On 7 July 2005 he was appointed for a term of four years as one of the Trustees ( trustees ) to the Board of the British Museum by British Prime Minister.
Writings (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. Financial Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89879-561-6