Peter Lew has a Bachelor of Business degree in Banking and Finance from Monash University (Caulfield), after attending Mount Scopus Memorial College, a large Jewish school in Melbourne.
Concerns were expressed about Peter Lew's understanding of corporate governance issues when he told the Herald-Sun newspaper that he intended to represent the interests of his father on the board.
[5] In 2015, Peter Lew was criticised by Supreme Court of Victoria judge Melanie Sloss for failing to exercise "reasonable diligence" when it emerged his company 65 Albany Road Pty Ltd had been paying double the correct amount of land tax on his home and on an adjacent block for more than twenty years.
When the mistake was discovered, Lew successfully pleaded with the Victorian government for a refund, which he partly received but was mostly refused because the claim was lodged too late.
His father remarried in 2018, to a Rosa Prappas, a woman around thirty years younger, and mother Rosie is now in a de facto relationship with former head of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, Professor Allan Fels.