Traveling the country at 11 as a boy soprano, studying acting and working as a professional actor and then working internationally as an opera singer before becoming an activist with Greenpeace, working with Sustainable Cities and the "Redesigning Resources Business Leadership Group" then founding the Hillary Institute to honour those around the world doing great things in mid career and working with Sir Edmund Hillary on that. Mark Prain is the Founding Director of the Hillary Institute of Leadership. Hillary Institute Edmund Hillary Fellowship