Jo Ellison

Jo Ellison is editor of How to Spend It (HTSI), a weekly magazine of the newspaper Financial Times.

Education and early life
Born in Cambridge and raised between London and Dubai, Ellison studied history at the University of Edinburgh.

Career
Ellison's journalism career began at the Irish Examiner before she became features editor of The Independent, writing arts reviews and shaping articles. In 2008 she pursued an opportunity at British Vogue, where she became features editor, and then features director, before taking over as fashion editor at the Financial Times from Vanessa Friedman who moved to The New York Times in 2014. She was the second-ever person to inhabit the role after the newspaper decided to invest in regular fashion coverage in 2002. In 2019, Financial Times announced Ellison would succeed longtime How to Spend It editor Gillian de Bono.

Personal life
Ellison met her future husband, playwright Enda Walsh, while working in a theatre in Edinburgh. She moved to Cork to live with him a year later. They currently live together in Kilburn, London with their daughter.