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==