Adrian Hong is Managing Director of Pegasus Strategies LLC, a strategic advisory firm that advises governments, Global Fortune 500 corporations, funds and NGOs. He was an inaugural TED Fellow and TED Senior Fellow, and until recently was a visitor at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

Mr. Hong contributes regularly to media on policy matters, including Fox News, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and has briefed and advised parliaments, ministries, diplomats and governments around the world. He is an advisor on Global Insights & Research for Brand USA, the United States new travel and tourism promotion initiative, and a member of Delta Airlines’ Ideas in Flight advisory initiative.

Mr. Hong was a Visiting Lecturer in 2008 teaching “America, Human Rights and Foreign Policy” at Korea’s Ewha University, and was recently selected as a 2009 Arnold Wolfers Fellow at Yale University. In 2009 he was selected to receive the Japanese American Citizens League “Vision Award.”

Downtown Los Angeles is home to rich cultural offerings like the Los Angeles Philharmonic — and to thousands of mentally ill and homeless people just a few blocks away on Skid Row. Those two worlds came together briefly in the basement of a mental health center. Reporter: Krissy Clark

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Aaron Hill serves on the faculty at the University of Virginia and plays principal oboe in the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Hill holds the Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees from the Yale School of Music, where he was the recipient of the Thomas Nyfenger Memorial Prize and the Bachelor of Music degree with Highest Honors from the University of Michigan. He has presented master classes at the University of Texas, the University of North Texas, Michigan, West Virginia, and Oklahoma State University.

From 2002-2008, Mr. Hill played principal oboe in the Flint Symphony Orchestra, including a solo appearance performing Mozart’s Oboe Concerto. He has also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hartford Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, Windsor Symphony, and Ensemble ACJW. During the summer, Mr. Hill is a member of the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra. He has been honored as a Yamaha Young Performing Artist and was awarded the Grand Prize in the Mu Phi Epsilon Society for Musical Arts Competition and the Leche Trust Prize at the Barbirolli International Oboe Competition. He studied with Richard Killmer, Stephen Taylor, Nancy Ambrose King, David Weiss, and Klaus Becker.