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Dr David Ellis OBE is a British diplomat. He currently serves as His Majesty's Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He was appointed to the role in December 2021. Previous postings include Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy to Japan, and Minister-Counsellor at the British Embassy to the People's Republic of China.

Ellis holds a MA (Hons) in Chinese, and a PhD in Seventeenth Century Vernacular Fiction, both from the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis focused on the late Ming dynasty vernacular novel "The Sensational History of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty" (隋煬帝豔史). Ellis was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his work during the Great East Japan earthquake of March 2011.