Christopher Forbes is an Art History graduate of Princeton University and is internationally recognised as an art collector and historian with a particular interest in the Victorian era. He is Vice-Chairman of Forbes Inc. Forbes is a leading provider of business information for executives and affluent investors. The company's flagship publication, Forbes, has been among the top five magazines in America in ad pages for the last ten years, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. While still an undergraduate, Mr. Forbes worked as a Curator of The Forbes Magazine Collection. Further reflecting his interest in Art History, he has written several books and catalogues, including: Victorians in Togas, Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema from the Collection of Allen Funt, Metropolitan Museum, 1973; The Royal Academy (1836-1901) Revisited, Metropolitan Museum and others, 1975; Fabergé: Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies (with Hermione Waterfield), Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978; and Fabergé Eggs (with Dr. Armand Hammer), Harry Abrams, 1980, now in its fourteenth printing. Mr. Forbes also edited Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, published by Abrams in 1984. Most recently, Mr. Forbes co-authored with Robyn Tromeur Fabergé: The Forbes Collection, published by Hugh Lauter Levin in the Fall of 1999. In 1986 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by New Hampshire College. From 1976 through 1978, Mr. Forbes served as Publisher of Nineteenth Century, a quarterly magazine produced by Forbes Inc. on behalf of the Victorian Society in America. Christopher is the previous Vice-Chairman of The Business Committee for the Arts and sat on the boards of The New York Historical Society, The Newark Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Prince of Wales Foundation, Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1987 he was appointed to the Board of Regents of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City and was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by the French Government in 2003. He is an honorary Trustee of the New Jersey State Museum Foundation, Trustee Emeritus of The New York Academy of Art and also served on the Advisory Committee of the Department of European Decorative Arts of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is currently serving a four-year term on the Advisory Council of the Victorian Society in America and is Vice Chairman of the Board of Advisors of The Princeton University Art Museum. Christopher Forbes is a Watts Gallery Trustee Emeritus and was a member of the Watts Gallery Hope Appeal committee.