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Lester Crown is chairman of Henry Crown and Company. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business. Mr. Crown serves on the boards of General Dynamics Corporation, Northwestern University, Children's Memorial Medical Center, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Jerusalem Foundation, The Jewish Theological Seminary, and is Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and of The Commercial Club of Chicago.