1. Steven Mark Lowy was born on 24 November 1962 and is a leading Australian businessman and philanthropist.
19 Facts About Steven Lowy
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Steven Lowy is the former co-chief executive officer of Westfield Corporation, a leading global shopping centre company that was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco in 2018 in what was one of the largest transactions in Australian corporate history.
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Steven Lowy is a former Chairman of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
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Steven Lowy is the third and youngest son of Frank Steven Lowy, a co-founder of Westfield.
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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".
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In 2010 Steven Lowy was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to business, philanthropy, the arts and medical research.
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Steven Lowy 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.
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Steven Lowy received a Doctorate of Business from UNSW in 2024.
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Steven Lowy joined Westfield Holdings in 1987, was appointed a director of Westfield Holdings in 1989 and a managing director in 1997.
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Steven Lowy has been a director of Westfield Management Limited, the manager of Australia's then leading retail property trust, Westfield Trust since 1988.
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Steven Lowy flourished and expanded to other Australian cities and then the United States in the mid-1970s and to New Zealand in 1997 and the United Kingdom in 2000.
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Steven Lowy is currently President of Hakoah Club Sydney, a board member and trustee of Keren Hayesod-UIA, and on the Executive and Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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Steven Lowy is a former Chairman of the World Board of Trustees of Keren Hayesod-UIA and recipient of Ze'ev Jabotinsky award.
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Steven Lowy is a former president of the board of trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and now a Life Governor, Chairman of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, now a Life Patron and Governor, and is the Deputy Chairman of the Lowy Institute Australia's leading foreign policy think tank, and the Lowy Medical Research Institute, a private medical organisation.
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Steven Lowy was a member of the Prime Minister's Business-Government Advisory Group on National Security and has been the presiding officer of the NSW Police Force associate degree in Policing Practice Board of Management.
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In 2013 Frank Steven Lowy revealed to a Philanthropy Australia audience that his family had donated more than $350 million to various causes during the previous decade.
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Steven Lowy is a passionate soccer fan and played the game competitively throughout his youth.
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Steven Lowy continued to compete in masters tournaments until injury ended his playing career in his early '50s.
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Steven Lowy was then elected chairman by his fellow directors.