Adrian Hong
OSE Advisor. See blog post from early 2013- [1]
Adrian Hong is Managing Director of Pegasus Strategies LLC, a strategic advisory firm working with governments, funds and NGOs. Mr. Hong was an inaugural TED Fellow (2009) and TED Senior Fellow (2010 - 2012). He also manages Indy Incubator, an incubator and accelerator for innovative and socially-conscious businesses and non-profits. Mr. Hong contributes regularly to national and international media, including Foreign Policy, 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 State's new travel and tourism promotion initiative, a member of Delta Airlines' Ideas In Flight advisory initiative. He is also a mentor at Spark Labs, Korea's premier startup accelerator. Mr. Hong currently advises or serves on the boards of several non-profit and for profit ventures, including Open Source Ecology, Lumoon Vision and Street Symphony. He is also co-founder and former Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea, an organization focused on human rights and refugee protection of North Koreans. Mr. Hong was a visitor at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy (2010 - 2011), a Visiting Lecturer teaching "America, Human Rights and Foreign Policy" at Korea's Ewha University (2008), and was selected as a 2009 Arnold Wolfers Fellow at Yale University (2009). He was also selected to receive the the Japanese American Citizens League 'Vision Award' (2009). Mr. Hong is also co-founder of the TEDxSanDiego conference, held annually since 2010, and founder/curator of the TEDxTripoli conference, founded in 2012.
