Lachlan Beggs is a settler-descendent scholar and community practitioner with significant experience and privilege working with and for First Nations peoples across such areas as social and emotional wellbeing, formal recognition, and land and natural hazard management.  

Since 2019 he has been employed as an anthropologist at First Nations Legal and Research Services, undertaking research for native title matters and settlements under the Traditional Owner Settlement Act 2010. Prior to this he spent three years at the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency’s Royal Commission Support Service, assisting First Nations people who are survivors of child sexual abuse tell their stories to the Commission and seek compensation. He has also contributed to several University-based research projects along the way and counts himself lucky to live down on beautiful Wadawurrung Country.