Office of Deputy Staff Director/Chief Communications Officer

Prior to joining the FEC in March 2007, Art Forster was the Director of Congressional and Public Affairs for the Defense Contract Management Agency in Alexandria, Va. He came to DCMA in 2003 from New York City, where he was a senior vice president in the Corporate and Financial Group of Hill and Knowlton, Inc., an international public relations firm. Before joining H&K in 1996, he was the Director of the Air Force Eastern Region Public Affairs Office in Manhattan. During the Gulf War in 1991, he served as Air Force spokesman and media relations chief in the Pentagon. Mr. Forster holds a B.A. degree from Florida State University and an M.A. from the University of Denver.