Matthew S. Holland

Elder Matthew S. Holland was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 4, 2020. At the time of his call, he was serving as president of the North Carolina Raleigh Mission. He is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Church Communication Department.

Elder Holland held a number of Church callings, including full-time missionary in the Scotland Edinburgh Mission, gospel doctrine teacher, youth Sunday School teacher, ward mission leader, ward Young Men advisor, counselor in a bishopric, high councilor, and bishop.

Elder Holland graduated from Brigham Young University in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. After a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar and working several years for an international management consulting firm, he began his career in higher education. He earned a master’s degree and a PhD in political science from Duke University and was a professor of political science at Brigham Young University and a visiting scholar at Princeton and Oxford. In 2009, he was named president of Utah Valley University, a position he held until 2019, when he was called to serve as a mission president.

Matthew Scott Holland was born in Provo, Utah, on June 7, 1966. He married Paige Bateman in 1996. They are the parents of four children.