insto - Australian financial markets

Lachlan Colquhoun
Editor, Insto

Lachlan Colquhoun has had a 30 year career in journalism working for some of the industry’s premier mastheads and organisations all around the world. Beginning his career at the Adelaide Advertiser, in Australia he has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review and BRW magazine among many others. He also spent six years at ABC radio, ultimately working as executive producer of a daily current affairs program for Radio National. From 1997-200 he was the Asian business correspondent for the London Evening Standard and after returning to Australia contributed to the South China Morning Post, the Financial Times, Financial News in London, the Scotsman, Ireland’s Sunday Business Post and the Argus group in South Africa. More recently he returned to his home-town of Adelaide to edit the Adelaide Review before returning to Sydney in 2009.

Sonia Han
Journalist

Sonia has worked for companies including Xinhua News Agency, Reuters in China; and Decisive Publishing, Conexus Financial in Australia. She first started economic and financial reporting in 2002.
Sonia has completed a Master Degree in International Journalism from Tsinghua University in Beijing and is completing her third degree in the University of Sydney.

Bernard Kellerman

Bernard is an experienced finance and business journalist. His most recent role prior to joining Insto was with Fairfax Business Media and the Australian Financial Review, where he was a journalist and editor for more than four years, covering some of the biggest corporate deals in recent times. Bernard previously worked as a freelance feature writer and columnist for a range of trade, legal, professional and sports magazines. He also had a stint as the lead news reporter for Australian Tax Practice, now part of the legal, tax and accounting information business of Thomson Reuters Australia. Bernard has an accounting degree and post-graduate qualifications in applied finance.

Jane Lee
Journalist

Jane has been writing for Insto Magazine since February 2009 and also works on a range of business and trade magazines in Palamedia's publishing stable. With a background in international law, she regularly covers developments in the areas of financial regulation and law reform. She previously worked at Thomson Reuters' Sydney bureau, where she compiled commodities news reports. Jane has
completed a double degree in Journalism and Law at the University of Technology in Sydney.

Janette Wajs-Chaczko
Journalist

Janette has been writing for Insto Magazine since June 2009. As an ambassador for Opportunity International and microfinance initiatives, Janette travelled to poverty-stricken areas, overseas to observe microfinance in practice. Since 2008 Janette has also been involved with educational programs in NSW schools. Janette’s interests are international affairs and political economy. Studying for a Bachelor of Economics and Social Science at the University of Sydney, majoring in government and international relations and political economy.