Christiaan Durrant

About

Christiaan Durrant is an Australian pilot, entrepreneur, adventurer and passionate humanitarian. Christiaan works in international development around the world assisting states in crisis. Married with two children, he lives in Europe and manages the UAE based international development firm Lancaster6.

Christiaan consults and speaks internationally on organisational culture, international development and performance team development – contact him directly via Linked In for any potential engagement.

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Entrepreneur

‘The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life’ – Victor E. Frankl, Holocaust Survivor. Christiaan founded and directed ATACS Consulting in Australia in 2004. ATACS provides consulting services around the world to Governments and Businesses alike with a strong focus on Aviation Services. Key achievements of ATACS was the delivery of the world’s first Joint Live Virtual Constructive Exercise […]

Aviation

Born with a  passion for flying, Christiaan flies anything with wings. Christiaan joined the Royal Australian Air Force at 17 years of age and was fortunate to fly for 14 years continuously in all fighter squadrons; 25SQN, 76SQN, 2OCU, 3SQN, 75SQN and 77SQN. At 27 years of age Christiaan was a TOPGUN instructor and at 29 years of age the youngest F-18 Squadron Leader. He has flown […]

Publications

In 2004 Christiaan was part of a Booz Allen Hamilton team that worked with Australian Strategic Policy Institutes to publish ‘JSF -A Big Deal’. In 2009 Christiaan was privileged to work with Hugh White to produce a paper entitled ‘Rising Tigers and Ageing Fighters’ as part of the Australian Defence Force White Paper Review. In 2007 Christiaan founded the Southern Tablelands Windfarm Cooperative and developed successful policy to guide […]

Humanitarian

Christiaan is a dedicated to bettering the life of others whether it is in his professional life or privately. Professionally, through the company he manages Lancaster 6, Christiaan ensures investment in entrepreneurial endeavours in developing countries where L6 operates. Believing that stimulating economic development is more beneficial than aid, Christiaan ensures the Lancaster Foundation is promoting economic development in the most needy of countries. Lancaster6 is often called […]

Latest Posts

‘To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war’

‘To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war’

Our mission was to conduct an oil field survey across a region that was held by well armed and motivated rebel forces – what we would call a high risk mission. We had a good team who planned smart and executed well. What we discovered was heart breaking. This leaking oil valve was but one across a vast facility that had been leaking for months. Opposition forces had overrun the […]

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G’day

G’day

Well its been a long time coming and something my publishers wished I had done years ago. Now that this site has been built I hope I can keep it alive with interesting content as I move around the world. There is a lot of suffering in the world right now…but within all of that, there is still an amazing amount of beauty – that’s what I hope […]

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