Greg Mackie

Gregory Alan Mackie OAM is a South Australian cultural advocate and entrepreneur who has worked to promote the arts and culture in Australia. He served two separate terms as an elected Councillor on the Adelaide City Council. He was managing director of independent bookshop Imprints Booksellers from 1984 to 2007, and founded the Adelaide Festival of Ideas in 1999.

He has served on many public bodies, including Arts SA, and Adelaide Writers' Week. As of March 2024^[update] he is CEO of the History Trust of South Australia, after being appointed to the position in 2016.

Gregory Alan Mackie is the son of Graham Miller, who, with his wife Gayle Miller and her friend Patricia Sykes, first opened the literary book retailer Imprints Booksellers at 80 Hindley Street, Adelaide, in 1984.

Before going to university, Mackie's working life started in 1979, when he worked as a buyer for Myer SA Stores until 1982. He moved on from this position to become a manager of Semprini's (newsagent) in Unley for a year.

Mackie studied at Flinders University, graduating with a BA degree in 1987. While a student, he worked for his father at Imprints Booksellers on weekends, and six months later, bought into the business.

From 1984 until 2003 Mackie was director and co-proprietor (with Gayle Miller), of Imprints. In 1986 he co-established the Art Zone Gallery, and was coordinator of the gallery until 2000. Imprints moved to no. 107 Hindley Street in 1999, around the time that many arts organisations were moving into the vicinity, including Adelaide Festival offices above the shop. During the 1990s, Mackie founded the West End Association (to boost the profile of the changing "West End" of the city. Mackie and Miller sold the shop in 2007 to Jason Lake and Katherine Woehlert, who had been working there for some time.

He was executive director of Arts SA from 2004. Working with the Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, and the Minister for Disability, Jay Weatherill, Mackie established the Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust Fund in 2006.

From 2008 until 2011 he was deputy chief executive of the Department of Premier and Cabinet during the Rann government. During this time Mackie chaired the State Emergency Management Committee. His responsibilities included Arts SA, the Capital City Committee Directorate, the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Program, the Integrated Design Commission SA, and The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI).