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The Fund for Arts and Culture

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2010 Annual Report

The Fund for Arts and Culture would like to announce our new officers:

Paul H. Elicker, our former Chairman, is now Chairman Emeritus.

Paul Elicker at Pushkin statue in Odessa, Russia, 2001.

Paul H. Elicker served as Chairman of The Fund from 1997-2010. His background is in private industry and more recently in government-oriented service. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SCM Corporation, a $3.4 billion Fortune 500 conglomerate company. He was Executive Director of The Center for Privatization, the first and largest consulting firm devoted exclusively to privatization work in about eighty countries, and has personally participated in assignments in about thirty countries. By Presidential appointment, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Baltic American Enterprise Fund, which is responsible for U.S. foreign aid to small and medium-sized private enterprises in the Baltic countries.

Michael P. Daniels

Michael P. Daniels is now Secretary of The Fund, replacing Frank Johnson.

Michael P. Daniels is currently President and founder of MPD Consultants LLC in Washington, D.C. His practice has included the Federal District and Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of International Trade, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Previously he practiced before the Department of Commerce, Department of Treasury, Department of State, the United States Congress and the World Trade Organization. He has served as an attorney primarily in the trade and investment fields representing governments, trade associations, businesses and individuals from the United States, East and South Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He is a Member of the State and Northern Virginia Opera Boards.