Steven Lowy

Steven M Lowy AM
Steven Lowy at the Art Gallery of NSW
Born	(1962-11-24) 24 November 1962 (age 54) Sydney, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Co-CEO Westfield Corporation
Years active	28
Board member of	Westfield Corporation Scentre Group Football Federation Australia (Chair) Lowy Institute for International Policy Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (Past Chair) Art Gallery of NSW (Past President of Trustees)
Spouse(s)	Judy Levin
Children	Four
Parents	Frank Lowy AC (father) Shirley Lowy OAM (mother)

Steven Lowy AM (born 24 November 1962) is co-Chief Executive Officer of Westfield Corporation, a leading global shopping centre company with 35 shopping centres under management valued at US$29.3 billion. He also serves on the board of Scentre Group, the premier Australian shopping centre company, which has 40 shopping centres under management valued at A$43.3 billion. In November 2015 he was elected Chairman of Football Federation Australia.

Lowy is the third and youngest son of Frank Lowy, a co-founder of Westfield. The Lowy family is one of the most prominent business families in Australia with a reported net worth in excess of $8 billion in 2016. In late 2014, Steven Lowy’s life was documented in a feature article in The AFR Magazine, "The Son Rises: Steven Lowy ascends at Westfield". In 2010 Lowy was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to business, philanthropy, the arts and medical research.

Lowy was born to a Modern Orthodox Jewish family, in Sydney, the youngest son of Shirley and Frank Lowy, and educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of New South Wales where he graduated as a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours). He was awarded the University Prize for his honours thesis and later co-authored a paper with Professor Mark Hirst published in the academic journal Accounting, Organizations and Society.

He joined Westfield Holdings in 1987, was appointed a Director of Westfield Holdings in 1989 and a Managing Director in 1997. He has also been a Director of Westfield Management Limited, the manager of Australia’s then leading retail property trust, Westfield Trust since 1988. Prior to joining Westfield Holdings in 1987 he worked in investment banking at First Boston Corporation in the US for two years.