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Dr. Mahasti Afshar |
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Mahasti Afshar
joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in
2002 to head a $100 Million Endowment Campaign. |
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Mahasti Afshar is an arts and
culture executive with an M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1988) in
Sanskrit and Indo-European Folklore & Mythology from Harvard
University and diplomas in film and television production
from the BBC, London, and ORTF, Paris (1968-69).
In 1989, she joined the Getty Conservation Institute in Los
Angeles. Over the next ten years she created initiatives
aimed at raising public awareness of the importance of
preserving the world’s cultural heritage. These included
exhibitions, documentaries, publications, virtual reality
galleries, and public programs ranging in subject from 3.4
million year-old hominid footprints in Tanzania to
Nefertari’s tomb paintings in ancient Egypt, Buddhist
monuments in China, historic cities in Latin America, and
living landmarks in Los Angeles, Cape Town, Mumbai, Mexico
City, Paris, and other cities around the world.
Later on, as Director of ARCH, a private foundation based in
Salzburg, Austria, she engaged in conservation projects and
grant programs in Greece, Morocco, Austria, China, and
India. |
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