Title: Board Member and Officer
Company: 2115 N Street Condo Association
Location: Hopkins, Minnesota, United States
Jeffery A. Young, Board Member and Officer at 2115 N Street Condo Association, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Executives for dedication, achievements, and leadership in nonprofit administration.
Mr. Young is a distinguished U.S. expert on foreign policy and international trade. His unique achievements in the private sector and U.S. diplomacy include cross-cutting work and study overseas to further international relations with Australia, Germany, Japan, Barbados, China, Italy, Denmark and Greenland.
Mr. Young’s international experiences began in 1980 when he was selected to participate in an American Field Service scholarship exchange program at Scotch College Preparatory School in Melbourne, Australia. There, he received a Victorian Higher School Certificate (HSC) degree. His parents, Harold and Margaret, who worked in publishing and academia, inspired him to pursue a globe-trotting career. Their work led them to Salzburg Global, a bridge-building think tank for global leaders located in Salzburg, Austria. From 1981 to 1982, Mr. Young had the privilege of spending a pre-college gap year at Salzburg Global’s headquarters at Schloss Leopoldskron. During this time, he gained German fluency at the Internationale Ferien Kurse (IFK) School, under the patronage of the University of Salzburg, Austria.
Mr. Young earned a Bachelor of Arts in German and economics, graduating with honors from Wesleyan University in 1987. In 1986, the German government selected him for a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) (German Academic Exchange Service) summer fellowship at Regensburg University in Regensburg, Germany. He later received a post-graduate DAAD grant to study free trade and commercial diplomacy at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, for the academic year 1987-1988—witnessing the closing years of the Cold War.
Upon returning to Boston, Mr. Young began a career in international trade at Hagan & Company. He initially joined the company in the spring of 1987 as a research associate and then rejoined in 1988 as a senior consultant. He remained in the latter role until 1990, helping smaller enterprises and foreign trade commissions from Germany, Australia and Ireland build strategic alliances. He held a concurrent role in 1988 serving Fortune 500 clients as a research consultant at Harbridge House Inc., which later merged into PwC.
In 1990, Mr. Young joined CrossEuroTrade in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a consulting analyst and served as a project-based consultant for Global Partners Inc. in Boston from 1990 to 1991, analyzing the best globalization practices of the Fortune 1000. During this period, he shared his expertise by authoring several articles published in Enterprise and Global Reach.
In 1991, Mr. Young was accepted into Columbia Business School-Columbia University in New York, where he received a Master of Business Administration in international business. There, he received a distinguished Nambu Foundation Fellowship in 1992 and joined two dozen other American graduate students to work in Tokyo, Japan that summer. He gained additional experience interning with the mergers and acquisitions team of the global trading giant Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), which afforded him the opportunity to study internet retail at its inception. While at Columbia, Mr. Young was also awarded a U.S. Center for International Business Education (CIBE) Fellowship from 1992 to 1993 and the CIBE Essay Prize for his essay promoting regional trade blocs in 1992.
After completing his MBA, Mr. Young joined Mitsubishi International Corporation, MC’s U.S. subsidiary. He served as an assistant manager in the Washington, D.C. liaison office from 1993 to 1995 and as a manager from 1995 to 1997, covering emerging markets in developing countries and business-government issues worldwide. In June 1998, while still living in Washington, D.C. Mr. Young met the woman who would later become his wife, Gabrielle Chodes. That same year, he received a career appointment to the U.S. Foreign Service.
After completing a brief German refresher course, Mr. Young was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Berlin as a third secretary/vice consul and staff aide to Ambassador John Kornblum. He served in this capacity from 1998 to 2000, directing the protocol unit and reporting on refugees. For his service to the U.S. government during the Cold War period, he received the U.S. government’s Cold War Recognition in 1999. Mr. Young’s next assignment was at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia, where he served as a political officer and second secretary/consul, handling human rights, Pacific security, and migration from 2000 to 2002. Ms. Chodes, an Australian National University graduate student, joined Mr. Young there.
Between 2002 and 2003, Mr. Young completed the Department of State’s Long Term Economic program in Washington, D.C., after which he briefly served at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados as second secretary of political affairs. He returned to Washington, D.C. to take on international economist and trade policy officer roles for the Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, where he remained from 2003 to 2005. Notably, he negotiated and reported on five free trade agreements while also serving on special detail at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. His efforts earned him the Department’s Superior Honor Award in 2005.
Mr. Young moved to the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 2006 as an international economist in the regional affairs unit. He handled the U.S. role in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) portfolio, managed U.S. trade cooperation with 21 Asia Pacific economies and served on the secretary of state’s delegations to the APEC Summits in Hanoi and Sydney in 2006 and 2007. He worked as a special assistant to the undersecretary for economic affairs, Reuben Jeffery, from 2007 to 2008 before being selected as the first secretary of the economic unit at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2009 to 2010, where he worked on World Trade Organization issues and the Strategic Economic Dialogue.
Mr. Young returned to Europe in 2011 and, after gaining fluency in Italian, served as the political-economic-commercial section chief for the U.S. Consulate General in Naples, Italy. He remained in this role until 2012, handling U.S. collaboration throughout southern Italy while leading a team of experienced political-economic staff. He was then selected for a Department of State Pearson Fellowship and worked in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2014 in Washington, D.C. This appointment was followed by another overseas posting to Denmark. From 2014 to 2015, Mr. Young gained pre-assignment fluency in Danish and familiarized himself with U.S.-Nordic-NATO relations. For the following three years, he served as first secretary and deputy in the Political Unit at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, leading the political team under Ambassador Rufus Gifford. His primary responsibilities related to Danish politics and facilitating cooperation between the Faroe Islands, which are self-governing territories of the Danish Kingdom, Greenland and the U.S., making outreach visits to the Danish territories, and reporting on elections there and in Denmark itself.
Mr. Young returned to Washington, D.C., in 2018 and served as a senior advisor at the Center for the Study of the Conduct of Diplomacy (CSCD), a relatively new unit with a mandate to study, capture and distill policy, diplomacy and negotiation lessons learned in the field. Mr. Young completed policy implementation reviews relating to New Zealand, Kazakhstan and France until September 2020, at which point he concluded his career with the U.S. State Department after over two decades of service.
In addition to his professional achievements, Mr. Young has served as an elected member of the board of directors and officer at the non-profit 2115 N Street Condominium Association, Washington, D.C., since 2007, maintaining a historic brownstone built in 1895 by architect B. Stanley Simmons under a L’Enfant Trust preservation easement. He also serves separately as a non-profit trustee. Mr. Young is an active member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), a life member of the Massachusetts SocJiety of Mayflower Descendants and a life member of the Old Scotch Collegians Association. He and his wife reside in Massachusetts, where he is working on a family history publication involving Cape Cod, Canada and his New England family ties.
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