Since 2015, he is a Fellow at the Transatlantic Center at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Study and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.
[2] On June 3, 2016, President Barack Obama appointed Sedgwick Commissioner to the United States World War One Centennial Commission.
Ellery Sedgwick Sr., his grandfather, was editor and publisher of Atlantic Monthly magazine.
Ellery Sedgwick Jr., his father, was a naval intelligence officer during the D-Day invasion and his uncle, William Ross Bond, was a brigadier general who was killed in the Vietnam War.
[2] William Ellery, an original signer of the Declaration of Independence, is another ancestor.