Prof. Simon Lockrey

DESIGN RESEARCH JUROR

Professor Simon Lockrey from RMIT School of Design is the REDUCE Program Leader in End Food Waste CRC, a national $121 million research and development initiative aiming to halve food loss and waste by 2030.

The domains in which Professor Lockrey has managed research include life cycle assessment, design innovation, green marketing, resource efficiency, food waste reduction and the circular economy, for companies including Chep, Visy, Nestlé, Lendlease, and Breville, as well as government departments and NFPs/ NGOs. As a result, he has generated millions of dollars of ‘industry facing’ research, creating global impact through policy changes, commercial outcomes, and media coverage.

On practice, Professor Lockrey’s professional design, engineering and management has crossed a large range of industries for organisations such as Cyclone, Schiavello, Dyson, Whirlpool, Sabco, Sorbent, Novatech Controls, Henkel, and Glowpear which has resulted in the generation of many billions of dollars in income and intellectual property (IP).

At board level, Professor Lockrey is the former Secretary of the International Sustainable Development Research Society, Vice President of Automotive Historians Australia, former Executive Director of Glowpear, and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.