Alison Elliot[1] (born 27 November 1948)[2] is an honorary fellow at New College, Edinburgh.
[3] She was the former Associate Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
[4] An elder and session clerk at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, she was also the first non-minister to hold this post since George Buchanan in 1567.
[6] Her professional career is in psychology, but her public profile has been chiefly through her church work.
[citation needed] In 2018 she became General Secretary of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which she has been a Fellow since 2008.