and his family donated 10 million to facilitate the construction of the UNSW Lowy Cancer Research Centre, a collaborative centre of the Children's Cancer Institute Australia and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. Awards and recognition In 2000, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his service to the community through the development of the property industry and expansion of the retail sector in Australia and internationally, and as philanthropist committed to support of wide-ranging social and cultural endeavours. In 2002, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Ehud Barak in Dublin, Ireland. The establishment of the Lowy Institute led him to being awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship in 2005 by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. On 2 October 2007 Lowy received the Henni Friedlander Award for the Common Good at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States. In 2008 Lowy was honoured by Australia Post for his contribution to philanthropy as one of the nation's five leading, living philanthropists with a commemorative postage stamp that was released on the eve of Australia Day as part of the Australian Legends series. He was knighted in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours (UK) for services to business and philanthropy. References External links 1930 births Living people Australian billionaires Australian Knights Bachelor Australian Orthodox Jews Australian people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Australian people of Slovak-Jewish descent Australian soccer chairmen and investors Businesspeople from Sydney Australian real estate businesspeople Companions of the Order of Australia Czechoslovak emigrants to Australia Czechoslovak emigrants to Israel Czechoslovak Jews Directors and Presidents of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Football Australia officials Haganah members Hungarian Jews Israeli emigrants to Australia Israeli Jews Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Israeli people of Slovak-Jewish descent Naturalised citizens of Australia People from Fiľakovo Westfield Group 20th-century Australian businesspeople 21st-century Australian businesspeople Australian philanthropists