John Langmore

Women attend a workshop on UN SCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security - Malha, North Darfur (Sojoud Elgarrai/UNAMID/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Addressing international conflict through peace-building

by John Langmore

19 July 2017

Economics at the University of Papua New Guinea, 1969

by John Langmore

2 July 2015

Anthony Clunies-Ross: contributor to the common good

by Ross Garnaut and John Langmore

21 May 2015

A social safety-net in each country: a necessary condition for eradicating poverty?

by John Langmore

24 January 2014

AusAid and conflict prevention: a case for mediation

by Nate Shea, John Langmore and Aran Martin

28 August 2012

Innovative sources of development finance

by John Langmore

16 December 2011

John Langmore

John Langmore is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Between 1963 and 1976 he worked in Papua New Guinea as a public servant and university lecturer where he led the preparation of the first national plan.

Between 1976 and 1984 he was an economic advisor to the Australian Parliamentary Labor Party and with Ralph Willis proposed the negotiation of the Accord. In 1984 he was elected to the House of Representatives and was later re-elected four times for the ACT seat of Fraser. He chaired the committee which planned the first comprehensive committee system for the House of Representatives. Amongst the Caucus and House committees he chaired were inquiries on the national infrastructure, the Bretton Woods institutions, Australia's current account; the environment; and the Australian Capital Territory.

He retired from parliament in 1996 to become Director of the UN Division for Social Policy and Development in New York for five years and then Representative of the International Labour Organization to the United Nations for two. He was responsible for the organisation of the 24th special session of the General Assembly which was the first world conference to agree on the global target for halving serious poverty by 2015.