Ellul, James Aaron

About the MP

A former journalist with the Nationalist Party’s media, who also served as the Party’s Director of Communications between 2023 and 2024, James currently serves as Director of Information within Net Media and the Nationalist Party. He is also a lecturer in Maltese at MCAST.

Over the past 10 years, he has produced and presented numerous programs of different genres, including political programs, current affairs, and discussion shows for both television and radio. He continues to produce programs, including hit PROFILI, which in 2025 reached its fifth season.

In 2025, he won an award from the Institute of Maltese Journalists (IĠM) for best use of spoken Maltese, and also placed third in two other categories.

James is from Floriana and was elected at the age of 19 in the first local council election he contested, today he also serves as Deputy Mayor for the PN in the same locality. In 2020, he received a national honor from JCI for his work in local politics in Floriana.

A graduate in Maltese, James has worked on several books for various publishing houses. In 2023, he published Il-Kelma ta’ Eddie Fenech Adami. In 2022, one of his studies was published in the book Pioneers of Democracy. He was also a finalist in the National Book Prize 2024. In 2025, he published Il-Karikatura tal-Mument, a book on political satire. He is currently studying for a Master of Arts in the Interpretation of Maltese Literature at the University of Malta.

He is married to Sarah Jane, and they have a son named Pio Leone.