Adjunct Professor – University of Canberra
Adjunct Professor – Southern Cross University
Conjoint Professor – Western Sydney University
Visiting Professor – RMIT University
Former Adjunct Professor – University of Newcastle
Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales

• Past Chair of the Building Practitioners Board Victoria
• Past President of the Australian Institute of Building (Victorian Chapter)
• Past President of the New Zealand Institute of Building (Northern Chapter)
• Former Deputy Executive Director of the Australian Building Codes Board
• Former Assistant Director of Building Control Victoria, predecessor agency to the VBA, and instructing officer to Parliamentary Counsel in connection with development of the Victorian Building Act 1993
• Led the team responsible for development of the National Model Building Act, which became a blueprint for building regulatory law reform in Australia during the 1990s
• Co-author of several IBQC guidelines and prepared the drafting instructions for the world’s first International Model Building Act
• Former Honorary Consul for Ethiopia in Victoria
• Author/co-author of approximately 15 books on construction law, advocacy, disciplinary jurisprudence, and regulatory and microeconomic reform

Kim Lovegrove is an internationally recognised construction lawyer, academic, and law reformer with nearly four decades of experience in building regulation, construction law, and dispute resolution system design. He is widely regarded as one of the principal architects of modern day building control in a number of Australasian jurisdicitons.

In his former capacity as a Senior Consultant to the World Bank, Kim assisted with the provision of international best-practice law reform advice concerning building regulatory frameworks, regulatory governance, and institutional reform initiatives.

He has been deployed internationally in law reform advisory capacities in Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, and Malawi on behalf of the World Bank. Earlier, in his capacity as a representative of the Australian Federal Government, he participated in Japanese sovereign building regulatory reform initiatives and was later retained in connection with further Japanese regulatory reform consultations.

In 2025, Kim advised in connection with New Zealand proportionate liability reform initiatives and associated building regulatory liability settings involving New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

Also in 2025, pursuant to a World Bank deployment, Kim addressed a major Malaysian national forum on international best-practice approaches to the design of construction dispute resolution systems and regulatory architecture.

Kim also practises as a barrister from Forty Eight Shortland Barristers in Auckland, New Zealand.