Lachlan Colquhoun, BE (Hons) DipEngPrac, 36 (at Jan 1 2008), grew up in Brisbane and was educated at Brisbane Grammar School. He was introduced to the understandings of the human condition in 1991 through his best friend FHA member John Biggs while attending the University of Queensland. Lachlan moved to Sydney in 1997 to directly support the FHA and after completing his engineering degree at the University of Technology in Sydney, he worked for a multi-national engineering company. He is involved in many aspects of the FHA and now works as a leading engineer in a manufacturing business.