Michael J. Elliott

Michael John Elliott OBE (31 May 1951 – 14 July 2016) was a British journalist and executive, long-based in the United States. He was the president and chief executive officer of the anti-poverty advocacy organization ONE.

Awarded an OBE in 2003 for services to journalism, Elliott previously held senior executive positions at Time Magazine, Newsweek, and The Economist. After leaving journalism in 2011, he became president and CEO of the ONE campaign, the global development organization founded by U2 lead singer Bono.

Early life and education Elliott was born in Liverpool, England in 1951. He attended the University of Oxford.

Career

After his graduation, Elliott was a lecturer at Northwestern University, the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics. He joined The Economist in 1984. He relocated from England to the United States in 1986, and subsequently became the publication's Washington bureau chief and political editor. In 1993, Elliott moved to Newsweek, where he served as the diplomatic editor until 1995, when he was named editor of Newsweek International.

In May 2001 he joined the staff of Time magazine as an editor at large; in 2004 he was named editor of Time Asia and in 2005 he was appointed editor of Time International and deputy managing editor of Time. He coined the term Nylonkong in 2008.

Elliott became CEO of ONE in 2011, and oversaw the organization's global operations.

In 2005, GoodNet named Elliot as one of the world’s 25 inspiring CEOs.

In 1989 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture “for distinguished contributions to basic science and its successful translation into practice in the fields of animal health and crop protection”.

Death Elliot died from complications of bladder cancer at the age of 65 in Washington, D.C.