Alistair Macrae

Reverend Alistair Macrae AO
The Revd Alistair Macrae, May 2010
President of the Assembly
Church	Uniting Church in Australia
Installed	2009
Term ended	2012
Predecessor	Gregor Henderson
Successor	Andrew Dutney
Moderator of Synod of Victoria and Tasmania
Church	Uniting Church in Australia
Installed	2000
Term ended	2003
Orders
Ordination	1984
Personal details
Born	1957 (1957)
Nationality	Australian
Denomination	Christian
Parents	Revd Donald and Anne Macrae
Spouse	Clare Boyd-Macrae
Children	Four

Alistair Macrae AO (born 1957) is an ordained Christian minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and was formerly a moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, and President of the National Assembly.

Macrae is the son of the Revd Donald and Anne Macrae. He was born in Melbourne and spent most of his childhood in Sale, Victoria, before moving to Melbourne for secondary education and then Melbourne University.

He has degrees in arts, theology and philosophy from the University of Melbourne and the University of Dublin.

Macrae was ordained in 1984 and has served in rural, regional and inner city congregations in Victoria, at Mt Beauty, Portland and West Brunswick. He served as Moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania (2000–2003) and as Executive Director of the Uniting Church Centre for Theology and Ministry (2004–2009) in that synod. He was a member of the board of Wesley Mission Melbourne and chaired its social policy committee.

Macrae was an inaugural member of the Victorian State Government's Community Support Fund and served on the advisory committee of the Community Alcohol Action network of the Australian Drug Foundation.