Matt Ellison

Matt Ellison is a writer, producer, and media executive. He is the creator and executive producer of Chartres Live and Chartres 2026: Path to Pentecost, a three-part television series covering the annual Paris–Chartres pilgrimage in France and distributed by EWTN. He is also the founder of Saeculum LLC, which develops original productions and advises institutions, family offices, and philanthropic partners.

Educated at the Roxbury Latin School and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Ellison has held research appointments at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution and worked with award-winning public broadcasters at WBUR’s Radio Open Source. He later became executive editor of Palladium Magazine and continues to serve on the board of the American Governance Foundation. He also serves on the committee governing the literary estate of the historian and theorist of civilizations Carroll Quigley.

Raised in a Catholic family with roots across Central and Western Europe, Ellison has made regular pilgrimages to Chartres and other sacred sites, studied sacred liturgy and theology with the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, and is currently pursuing studies in Thomistic philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome.