Jimmy Tay, Hill and Knowlton's Chief Executive for Southeast Asia, was named PR Agency Head of the Year at the Asia Pacific PR Awards 2009. The award caps a decade of stellar results at the helm in Singapore.

Hill & Knowlton Singapore was named The Holmes Report's South-East Asia Consultancy of the Year for 2009.

IPAN, one of India's leading PR consultancies and a Hill & Knowlton associate for more than 20 years, is to be renamed IPAN Hill & Knowlton after transferring management stewardship from JWT to Hill & Knowlton, the leading international communications consultancy, from 1st July 2009.

Tata Communications has selected Hill & Knowlton to help increase its presence and mindshare as a global voice and data service provider on a worldwide level, excluding India. 

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, will lead Hill & Knowlton's seminar in the first ever 'Official Cannes Lions Tweet-Up' at this year's festival. H&K is the only PR agency to secure a seminar slot during the week-long programme of events, and Biz Stone will lead the session taking place on Monday 22nd June at 4pm. Biz will be speaking about life, the Twitterverse and everything in between, before taking questions live on Twitter.