Dr. Lockwood has doctorate in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. He was Assistant Professor in the psychology departments of Washington University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is currently a fellow of the Oxford (UK) Centre for Animal Ethics and the Denver University Center for Human-Animal Interaction. He has held adjunct teaching appointments with Duquesne University, Canisius College and the College of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville.

Dr. Lockwood was a vice president at the Humane Society of the United States from 1984 to 2005 and joined the staff of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in 2005. He retired as Senior Vice President for ASPCA’s Anti-Cruelty Special Projects in 2019. He continues to serve as a consultant to the ASPCA on policy, response and engagement. For over 40 years, Dr. Lockwood has worked with humane societies, veterinary groups and law-enforcement agencies worldwide, serving as an expert on the interactions between people and animals. Dr. Lockwood has published over 100 papers in professional journals in a variety of fields. He co-authored Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence (1998) and Forensic Investigation of Animal Cruelty: A Guide for Veterinary and Law Enforcement Professionals (2006) and Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech: When Worlds Collide. U.S. v. Stevens and other Challenges on Public Policy and Animal Protection (2014).

He currently serves as Vice President and Board Chair of the National Link Coalition and is on advisory boards of The Morris Animal Foundation, the BioDiversity Project and the Small and Rural Law Enforcement Executives Association and is a member of the Fairfax County Virginia Hoarding Task Force, created in 1998 as the first such task force created to support community-wide response to hoarding.