Eric Ellis


Recent stories by Eric Ellis

  • Finance minister of the year 2011: Swan confounds his domestic sceptics

    Australia has struck it rich, and lucky, as it has used its natural resources to benefit from the China spending boom. But the careful stewardship of its treasurer, Wayne Swan, has played a key role in making it the best-performing economy among the world’s richer, developed nations. Not that he is likely to get much credit at home, as Eric Ellis reports.

    Euromoney September 2011

  • How Euromoney’s finance minister award became an Aussie political football

    Euromoney September 2011

  • Egypt: Banking on a revolution

    Egypt’s top bankers took extreme measures to ensure that the country’s financial infrastructure did not break down as the Mubarak government fell. Now, as they desperately hope that a new regime will enable the banking industry to flourish, optimism is tempered with the reality of how much work there is to do. Eric Ellis reports from Cairo.

    Euromoney September 2011

  • Korn puts Shinawatra government on watch

    The buoyant Thai economy kept motoring on through the political disturbances of the past year. But the recently elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra is already being challenged on its economic policies by former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij. Eric Ellis reports.

    Euromoney September 2011