Ambassador Craig Roberts Stapleton
The Honorable Craig R. Stapleton was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His grandfather, Benjamin F. Stapleton served five terms as Mayor of Denver. He received his secondary school education at Phillips Exeter Academy. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Ambassador Stapleton serves as a director of Tenax Aerospace and Vivino Inc. He is a Senior Advisor to Stone Point Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is a co-owner of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was President of Marsh and McLennan Real Estate Advisors of New York from 1982 until 2001.
During the administration of George H. W. Bush, Stapleton served on the Board of the Peace Corps. He served as Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2001 to 2003 and received the Jan Masaryk Medal from the Czech Republic. In June 2005, he was appointed Ambassador to France, served until January 2009 and received the French Legion of Honor as a Commander.
Stapleton serves on the boards of the Vaclav Havel Foundation, the American Library in Paris, the United Way Tocqueville of France, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, the World War I Commission and the National Medal of Honor Museum. He is a Trustee of the American University in Paris and the Fishback Foundation. He has served on the Visiting Committee for Harvard College Athletics and the Committee on University Resources and Athletics.
Craig and his wife Debbie live in Greenwich, Connecticut, have two adult children and six grandchildren. His son Walker was elected Colorado State Treasurer in 2010 and 2014.