Steven Lowy AM
Chairman, World Board of Trustees
Steven Lowy AM is a Principal of LFG, the private investment business and family office of the Lowy Family Group. For over 30 years, he was an executive director of the global shopping centre company Westfield Corporation, serving as co-Chief Executive Officer for many years prior to its sale in June 2018. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Lowy Institute, a director of the Lowy Medical Research Institute, President of Hakoah Club and Chairman of Keren Hayesod-UIA World Board of Trustees.
He has served as a director of Scentre Group, Chairman of Football Federation Australia, President of the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (now a Life Governor), Chairman of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (now a Life Patron and Governor), the Presiding Officer of the NSW Police Force Associate Degree in Policing Practice Board of Management and an inaugural member of the Prime Minister’s Business-Government Advisory Group on National Security.
Steven and his family are leading philanthropists in Australia, United States and Israel. He and his wife, Judy, have been working for and supporting Keren Hayesod-UIA since the mid-late 1980s. In the early 1990s Steven chaired the Young Leadership Division in New South Wales and chaired International Young Leadership in mid-late 1990s. Since then Steven has worked to assist the Major Donors Division in New South Wales.
Steven received an Order of Australia (AM) from the Australian Government in 2010 for service to business, and philanthropic support for the arts and culture, medical research and social policy organisations.
Steven was born in Sydney in 1962. He holds a Doctor of Business (Honoris Causa) and Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of New South Wales. He and his wife, Judy, have four children – Josh (married to Britt), Claudia (married to Jacob), Rina (married to Nathan) and Jonah. They have two grandsons, Liev and Aaron (to Josh and Britt). His interests include the Jewish community, in particular Jewish day school education, Israel advocacy, communal security, as well as football, the arts, medical research and foreign policy.
