Kellie Ell is a financial writer and reporter. She has covered private credit and non-bank lending, bankruptcy, M&A, the business of retail and fashion, the stock market and publicly-traded companies and the economy. She has also worked across a variety of platforms and mediums, including digital, print, social media, television, video podcasts and as a photographer.

Currently based in Sydney, Australia, Kellie is covering Australia’s real estate and property markets, as well as loan markets, through the lens of finance and business at Australian Broker, a Key Media publication. She is also a regular contributor to the New Zealand Adviser, one of Key Media’s sister publications, which focuses on New Zealand’s property markets and economy.

Prior to Australian Broker, Kelliver covered the fast-growing global private credit market, including fundraising efforts, deal structures and emerging markets at Creditflux, Debtwire’s sister publication. She has also written for other Debtwire publications, including Debtwire, Infralogic, Dealogic and Munis.

Before Creditflux, Kellie covered the financials of the retail industry for Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), a fashion magazine. At WWD, she covered public companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, such as American Eagle Outfitters, Victoria’s Secret, Lululemon, Farfetch, Target, Walmart, Urban Outfitters and Tapestry, in addition to private companies, such as SavageX Fenty, Kim Kardashian’s Skims, La Perla and Cosabella, among others. Kellie frequently interviewed retail CEOs and other senior-leadership executives for stories, panels and on-stage speaking events. While at WWD, she was also a regular contributor to WWD’s Equal Measure section, focusing on disabilities in the fashion industry and leading coverage of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in fashion.

Kellie has also worked for CNBC Digital and USA Today Money in New York, covering national business news. In addition, she has written for CNBC TV in the role of digital producer on the Mad Money with Jim Cramer show.

Kellie received her undergraduate degree in photojournalism, magazine writing and American Sign Language from San Francisco State University and a master's degree in business journalism and economics from City University of New York in Manhattan. Before landing in New York for graduate school, Kellie lived in South Korea for many years, where she was an editor at one of South Korea’s largest basic science research centers. A Connecticut native, Kellie has been to 49 states, 19 countries and five continents. Her favorite is Mexico, where she can practice her Spanish.

In addition to covering business news, Kellie is interested in stories on health and wellness, gender equality and international travel. (She promised her grandmother she would one day write a book about her escapades abroad.)

When not pursuing journalism, Kellie can be found riding her bicycle, training for her next marathon or making her way through a mountain of library books.