Milt LauensteinMilt Lauenstein (MBA University of Chicago, BS ChE Purdue U) was involved in business management from 1948 until 2001 as an executive and management consultant. He served as a director, chairman, and/or CEO of a dozen for-profit corporations and half a dozen not-for-profits. He served as a Senior Lecturer on Business Policy at the University of Chicago and as Executive-in-Residence at Northeastern University. He is the author of the book “What’s Your Game Plan?” about business strategy, published by Dow-Jones Irwin.Under President Johnson, he was a member of the US Department of Commerce Technical Advisory Board.Since 2001, he has been active in peacebuilding. He funded a successful campaign by local citizens of Guinea-Bissau to prevent a national election campaign from triggering a return to civil war in 2005. Based on that experience, he founded the Purdue Peace Project, which successfully assisted local citizens to prevent violence in several other countries in West Africa. He has funded a number of research projects, reports on which may be found on the website warandpeacebuilding.org. In 2020, with the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, he founded the Better Evidence Project to develop evidence about where and how to deploy peacebuilding resources for best results.With Dr. Elliot Short, he co-authored the book, “Peace and Conflict since 1991”, published by Peter Lang.He was in the Navy from 1943 to 1946, finally serving as Executive Officer of a small ship. He is married, with four children, seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. He attended several art schools in the US and Europe and continues to paint as an avocation. He is a Quaker.