Matt Ellison

Matt Ellison is a writer, producer, and media executive. He is the creator and executive producer of a forthcoming international cultural broadcast project and the founder and managing director of Saeculum Global Media and Saeculum LLC, which develop original media projects and advise companies and family offices across the media, technology, finance, and philanthropic sectors.

A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Ellison has held research positions at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution. Earlier in his career, he worked with award-winning public broadcasters Christopher Lydon and Mary McGrath at WBUR’s Radio Open Source in Boston, directed Georgetown’s International Relations Institute under Professor Anthony Clark Arend, and led operations and ceremonies for NAIMUN, the largest student-run Model United Nations conference in the world, hosting more than 3,000 delegates annually. While at Georgetown, he also organized high-level public events, including an exclusive live presentation of HBO’s The Final Year featuring former White House officials.

He later became the first executive editor of Palladium Magazine and continues to serve on the board of the American Governance Foundation. Across his institutional roles, Ellison has structured and managed partnership agreements with the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum. He also serves on the committee overseeing the literary estate of the late Georgetown historian and theorist of civilizations, Carroll Quigley.

Ellison was raised in a Catholic family whose roots trace to England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Switzerland, and the Philippines, with ancestors who settled in Boston and New York in the generations before the First World War. Since 2024, he has made annual pilgrimages to Chartres in France and has undertaken a pilgrimage to Mount Athos in Greece. He has studied sacred liturgy and theology with the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest and is currently writing a book on the history of metaphysics and its relationship to the liturgy in Western history.

Educated at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, Ellison lived for many years in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco before relocating to Europe, where he now resides, splitting his time between Vienna, Budapest, and Rome.