Steven Lowy

Lowy was born to a traditional 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 received a Doctorate of Business (honoris causa) from UNSW in 2024.

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.

Lowy married Judy Levin in 1986. They have four children.

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. He is a former Chairman of the World Board of Trustees of Keren Hayesod-UIA (2019–2024) and recipient of Ze’ev Jabotinsky award. He is a former president of the board of trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2006–2013) and now a Life Governor, Chairman of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (2008–2013), 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.

Steven 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.

Together with his father, Frank, and two brothers, David and Peter, he plays a key role in decisions about the Lowy family's philanthropic activities. In recent years, the family has supported the establishment of the Lowy Cancer Centre at the University of NSW, a new building (the Lowy Packer Building) to house the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and the St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research. The building was opened by Princess Mary of Denmark on 3 September 2008. In 2013 Frank Lowy revealed to a Philanthropy Australia audience that his family had donated more than $350 million to various causes during the previous decade. This has since increased considerably.