Ian Lowe is Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He directed Australia’s Commission for the Future in 1988 and chaired the advisory council that produced the first national report on the state of the environment in 1996. He has filled a wide range of advisory roles in Australia, including serving as a member of the Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council for twelve years. He is the author of 15 books and over 100 other publications and part of a global working party of the Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences, CAETS, devising approaches to meet the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. He has been a reviewer for the IPCC, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and the UNEP study of Resource Efficiency and Economic Outlook for the Asia-Pacific. In 2009, the International Academy of Sciences, Health and Ecology awarded him the Konrad Lorenz Gold Medal for research aimed at a sustainable future.