As President and CEO of the Los Angeles Conservancy, Adrian Scott Fine provides overall leadership for the nation’s largest local, nonprofit membership-based heritage conservation organization. He oversees the Conservancy’s strategic direction across the greater Los Angeles region—spanning 88 cities and unincorporated communities over more than 4,000 square miles—guiding teams that set priorities, build public awareness, and advance programs that protect and celebrate historic places. Collaborating with local governments, nonprofit partners, and community stakeholders, he ensures the Conservancy remains a proactive force in shaping the future of preservation across one of the country’s most diverse metropolitan landscapes.

Previously, Fine served as the Conservancy’s Senior Director of Advocacy, leading preservation campaigns, revitalization initiatives, and responses to critical heritage conservation challenges. Before joining the Conservancy, he worked at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C., as Director of the Center for State and Local Policy and earlier as Director of the Northeast Field Office in Philadelphia. In these roles, he guided national policy efforts and oversaw regional advocacy and program development across Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Earlier in his career, he also held leadership positions with Indiana Landmarks, the nation’s largest statewide preservation organization.

Fine is a Past President of the Board of Trustees for the California Preservation Foundation and currently serves as a co-chair for their statewide Advocacy Network. He is a founding board member of DoCoMoMo Southern California and is a board member of Synergy, an affordable housing nonprofit organization. He teaches in the University of Southern California’s Heritage Conservation Summer Program, serves as a trainer for the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions’ CAMP program, and is a frequent speaker with the Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative.