Hank Greenberg on his Dealings with China, Take on Financial Crisis

(New York) – The life of Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former chief executive of American International Group, has been far from ordinary.

He served in not just one but two major wars of the last century, World War II and the Korean War, and afterward built AIG into an insurance giant.

He was forced to step down as its chief executive amid an accounting scandal in 2005, and two years later, he sued the former attorney general of the state of New York for defamation in a case that is still pending.