Stephen Orlins

Stephen A. Orlins (born 1950) is an American lawyer and diplomat who has been president of the National Committee on United States–China Relations since May 1, 2005. Prior to this, Orlins was the managing director of The Carlyle Group Asia. He was also chairman of Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC) and senior advisor to AEA Investors Inc., a New York based leveraged buyout firm, with responsibility for AEA’s business activities throughout Asia.

Born to a mother and paternal grandparents who were European and Jewish immigrants to the United States, he grew up in a family where his brother, sister and he were taught that, but for the American government and the American people, they wouldn’t exist and they would have perished in Europe and died under the Nazis, or in a Russian pogrom.