Stephen Noel Elder OAM (born 29 September 1956) is an Australian former politician, who was the executive director of the Catholic Education Office Melbourne in Victoria, Australia from 2006 to 2018.
[1] He represented the Liberal Party and was the member of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Victoria for Ballarat North from August 1988 to October 1992.
Elder served as the Parliamentary Secretary for Education in the Victorian Government from 1992 to 1999.
In late 2018, Elder resigned as executive director of the Catholic Education Office, during the investigation of an unspecified workplace complaint.
Despite overseeing the securing of billions of dollars of extra government funding for the Catholic education sector, there were concerns that he had created a rift between Catholic and independent schools, which had usually worked together to get more funding for their organisations.