Interview with Michael Elliott

Status: Completed
Michael Elliott
President and Chief Executive Officer
ONE
Areas of expertise: International affairs, Food and Agriculture, Global Health

Michael Elliott is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ONE. Prior to joining ONE, Michael Elliott served as editor of TIME International, Deputy Managing Editor of TIME Magazine, and was also a columnist on the global economy for Fortune magazine. Elliott was named editor of TIME International in April 2005 after spending a year as editor of TIME Asia. He joined TIME in May 2001 as an editor-at-large after a year spent as editor-in-chief of eCountries, an internet-based news and analysis service on global affairs. From 1995-2000 he was editor of Newsweek International, and from 1984-93 he was on the staff of The Economist, where he was political editor and Washington bureau chief and the founding author of both the “Bagehot” and “Lexington” columns.

Prior to his career in journalism, he was a member of the Central Policy Review Staff in Britain’s Cabinet Office, and before that spent eight years teaching in universities in the United States and United Kingdom, ending his academic career with a tenured position at the LSE. Elliott was born and raised in the suburbs of Liverpool, England, and took two degrees at Oxford University.

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All Questions
Susan Hilmi
Sudan 		In regard to the vast agricultural lands in Sudan and its ability to provide high contibution in the world food which can rise the country income what is the best way to invest in that sector to make a higher financial gain with out any kind of govermental intervention?
Mangesh Jadhav
India 		what should be guts in man to become successful bussinessman?
Mr.K.punniyamoorthy
Afghanistan 		How can we abandon artificial foods
Mr.K.punniyamoorthy
Sri Lanka 		can we abandon the artificial foods instead the natural agriculture
Abdul Waheed Khan
Pakistan 		Pakistan is an agricultural country and to some how self sufficient in the food and agriculture sector but why the country cannot reach the quality of food and agricultural as applicable internationally
Gabriel España
Mexico 		What has Been the tangible impact of the ONE campaign in the life low income people around the world?
Uchenna Mkparu
Nigeria 		What types of projects would you recommend to be undertaken in the agriculture sector under the Federal Government of Nigeria's national PPP program? Considering that typically agriculture practice is on a small scale, with limited storage and processing input. Thank you for your response.
Victor kiptum
Kenya 		Michael, as the CEO of ONE what are the strategies that you may use to improve in food production and agriculture in a country like Kenya where land tenure systems are not sustainable in the long run?
Harbi ali
Djibouti 		how to help refugee who are moved because of violence in the Somali war. these people seek help in the refugee comps of Djibouti.
Yangki Imade Suara
Indonesia 		Hi Michael, can you share us when is the happiest moment during your life as CEO of ONE? I am optimism with ONE work.
Georgia McRae
Australia 		With (for example) some African countries having a youth population of 60% with few job prospects, and extreme mismanagement of Govt revenue, how can we ensure that the root causes and not just the symptoms of poverty are addressed and alleviated?
Georgia McRae
Australia 		With (for example) some African countries having a youth population of 60% paired with huge unemployment, and extreme mismanagement of Govt revenue, how can we ensure that the root causes and not just the symptoms of poverty are addressed and alleviated?
Georgia McRae
Australia 		How do you think Govt-to-Govt foreign aid and NGO services affects the typical democratic model which holds Governments to account over their ability to provide health, education etc by their own people (often through taxation revenue)?
peggy
Zambia 		economists have identified employment, aggegate consumption and income redistribution as some of the key measures of project benefit. what is the validity of this statement, the limitations and relationships between the three measures?