Elise Hu

Why you should listen

Elise Hu hosts the TED Talks Daily podcast, which features thought-provoking ideas on every subject imaginable every day of the week. She spent nearly a decade at NPR, appearing regularly on flagship shows such as All Things Considered and Morning Edition, filing stories from more than a dozen countries as an international correspondent and opening the organization’s Seoul bureau in 2015. Her experiences in Seoul inspired her debut nonfiction book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital.