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Stephen P. Groff (born February 15, 1964) is an economist and ranking vice-president of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines.

Groff was appointed as vice president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in September 2011 for operations in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, amounting to $5 billion in new lending every year and an existing portfolio of $31 billion.

Personal Life
Groff is married to Maria Theresa O. Regalado and they have two children. He was raised in Warren, Vermont, graduated from Harwood Union High School and served as Governor of Boy’s State and Senator to Boy’s Nation. His family has lived in the state for generations and their roots there can be traced back to the 18th century. His Great-grandfather was the photographer Edmund Homer Royce of St. Albans. His 3rd Great-grandfather was Vermont Congressman and Chief Justice Homer Elihu Royce and his 4th Great-uncle was Vermont Governor and Chief Justice Stephen Royce. His 5th Great-grandfather was Major Steven Royce who was a delegate to the convention that signed the 1774 Dorset Accords which led to an independent Vermont Republic and future statehood. Groff speaks Tagalog and French and is a triathlete.

Education
Groff is 1986 graduate of Yale University where he was a member of the Whiffenpoofs. He later attended the Kennedy School at Harvard University studying economics and public policy, receiving a two-year Master in Public Administration in 1996. He received the Pearson–FT Non-Executive Director SRF BTEC Level 7 diploma in 2015 and is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Management at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Career
Groff was appointed as vice president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in September 2011. Previously, he served as Deputy Director for Development Cooperation at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and as Deputy Vice-President for Operations at the Washington-based Millennium Challenge Corporation. He has also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Refugee Program and as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer. At ADB, Groff handles operations in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, amounting to $5 billion in new lending every year, an existing portfolio of $31 billion along with 650 staff.

Groff serves on a number of advisory boards, including the World Economic Forum’s Regional Strategy Group on ASEAN, World Learning, Bretton Woods Committee, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, Marine Stewardship Council, Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, and the Global Footprint Network.

Groff also writes regularly for leading publications on a variety of climate change and development-related issues, including Project Syndicate, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The Huffington Post.