Douglas Druick

AGE: 66
OCCUPATION: President, Art Institute of Chicago

No one batted an eye when Druick ascended to the Art Institute’s top job last August. The 27-year veteran has the curatorial chops and the confidence to steer one of Chicago’s vaunted cultural treasures out of the economy’s downturn.

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