Eric Ellis is an Australian journalist who writes about the politics, economics and societies of South and South-East Asia.
He reported on the Bali bombings over 2002–03, which won him the 2003 Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism for Coverage of the Asia-Pacific Region.
In 2005 was short-listed for the British Business Journalist of the Year Awards for reporting from Afghanistan, where he has tracked its post 9-11 development.
[citation needed] He was a finalist in the 2005 South Asian Journalists Association of North America awards for his reporting of the Sri Lankan tsunami for Fortune.
[citation needed] In May 2007, a profile he prepared of Wendi Deng was refused publication in the Sydney Morning Herald.