Lo, who was born in Hong Kong and attended the Royal College of Art in London, said he knew he wanted to be a designer from a young age, after his father began taking him to car races.
“This is really a dream for me, to be able to lead such a big design team of one of the biggest car companies in the world,” he said.
He credits Peter Stevens, former chief designer at Lotus and one of his professors at the Royal College of Art, as one of his mentors and says he draws inspiration from people with whom he is close.
“As designers, you need to always keep an open mind,” he said. “I try not to focus only within the automotive world. Everything is interconnected. You need to understand what’s going on, for example, in the fashion industry, or with architecture — how cities will be created in the future and how we can integrate that into various systems.”
Lo splits his time now between Detroit and Paris, where his family still lives. His garage houses a Mustang Mach-E and a Mustang Mach 1, which he uses on the long commute to Ford’s design studio in Cologne, Germany.
