Professor Helen Lochhead is Dean, Faculty of Built Environment, at UNSW Sydney. An architect, landscape architect and urban designer, she combines teaching, research, practice and advisory roles.
Helen's career has focused on the inception, planning, design and delivery of complex multidisciplinary projects ranging from a city-wide improvements programs to major urban regeneration projects.
Helen has held senior roles in the NSW government, including Deputy Government Architect, Executive Director roles at Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and Sydney Olympic Park Authority.
Notable appointments include the National Board of the Australian Institute of Architects, the AIA Foundation, Central Sydney Planning Committee, the ACT Planning and Land Council, the NSW Heritage Council and competition juries and Design Review Panels across Australia.
She was appointed to the former Planning Assessment Commission in August 2017 and is a current member of the Independent Planning Commission.