Lachlan Strahan is a historian and the Australian High Commissioner to Solomon Islands. His first book, Australia’s China, has become one of the standard works on Australia–China relations. His second, Day of Reckoning, traced a series of crimes in Papua New Guinea after World War II and was shortlisted for the 2006 NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize. He completed a PhD in History at Monash and in 2017 received the Distinguished Alumni Award.
