Lachlan is a Research Fellow and Project Manager (Integrated Water Management and WASH) at the International WaterCentre in Griffith University, Australia. He has extensive experience in integrated water strategic planning and water security. He has recently completed several high-level water assessments, most notably Key Dimension 1 of the Asian Development Bank’s Asian Water Development Outlook 2020 which addresses access to water, sanitation, health impacts and affordability within countries across Asia and the Pacific.

Lachlan is recognized as an expert in water security and the nexus between water and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) through his work in developing a COVID-19 Water Security Risk Index for the Indo-Pacific and applying a system approach to analyses and solution identification.