Maltese-based marketer Massimo Ellul has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts. Mr Ellul is chief executive of a marketing and entertainment management consultancy group with administrative offices in Malta. He has specialised his studies in the marketing field of economic activity and, to date, is the only Maltese to have been granted the Freedom of the City of London as a Marketor in 2005.

He is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Marketors of the City of London and a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management. He has recently returned from London where he was invited for a number of lectures and speeches.

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. It was founded in 1754 and was granted a Royal Charter in 1847.

Notable members have included Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, William Hogarth, Charles Dickens and Guglielmo Marconi.

The society is incorporated by Royal Charter, is registered in England as a charity, and has more than 25,000 Fellows.