Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is the third generation at the head of the LEGO Group. He was born with a deep love for LEGO products. While still a boy, he was a skilled modelmaker and a regular sparring partner in the design department when new models were tested. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen took a B.Sc. degree in Economics and Business Administration at Århus School of Business Administration, and in 1972 gained an MBA degree at IMD in Switzerland. In 1973 he joined the family enterprise as co-director of the LEGO Company's technical R&D department and of its first foreign production plant in Switzerland.