British-born, New York–based Mark Ellwood has lived out of a suitcase for most of his life. He is editor-at-large for luxury bibleRobb Reportas well as a columnist forBloomberg Luxury.Mark is also an ongoing contributor toFinancial TimesandNew York Timesand the author ofBargain Fever: How to Shop in a Discounted World.
我频繁的电视节目主持人和贡献者,马克s a regular guest on NBC’sTodayshow as a travel expert guiding viewers to the best travel and flight deals available to destinations around the world and has also reported forNBC NewsandTodayfrom the last three Olympics, in Russia, Brazil, and South Korea. For CNBC’s prime time show,Filthy Rich Guide, Mark was a valued on-air panelist. Mark has also filed segments for ABC News from destinations as diverse as London and Sydney and has contributed toGood Morning America, 20/20,andWorld News. He has guested onCBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, HLN, Rachael Ray, Access Hollywood,andExtra.
After studying for an undergraduate degree in English Literature at Cambridge University and a Masters on a scholarship from the University of Chicago, Mark worked as a tour director leading art tours in Florence, Rome, and Paris. After graduating, Mark moved to New York to become a journalist and host/reporter-producer, specializing in luxury goods, travel, fashion, and contemporary art. Starting his television career with luxury network Plum TV, where he was a correspondent and producer for its weekly lifestyle show,Plum Daily, and for special live coverage of splashy events like Art Basel Miami Beach and Aspen’s Food + Wine festival. He created and hosted its first-ever travel series,Local Currency, taking viewers to various European cities and helping them pass as a local.
Mark’s most recent book,Bargain Fever, explores our culture’s newfound obsession with deals, discounts, and never paying full price, such as the unadvertised discount savvy shoppers can wrestle out of Prada staff with a few choice words or the woman who earns more than a $1 million a year reselling coupons.
Among his favorite recent pitstops: a stint in China’s capital of cool, Chengdu, where the Middle Kingdom’s trend-setting millennials have embraced homegrown rap and fashion to watching an entirely different kind of rapper— the cowboy poets of Wyoming by the campfire. He has judged the finer points of vodka-swigging at the cocktail set’s answer to Miss World in New Zealand and spent a weekend on the remote island in Japan that’s home to a multimillion-dollar, Monet-powered art collection.
