Staff Profiles

Professor John Langmore Phone: 93292216 Email: langmore@unimelb.edu.au

Background

John Langmore is a Professorial Fellow in the Political Science, Socilogy and Criminology Department. He has been a Lecturer in Economics and Assistant Director of the National Planning Office in Papua New Guinea; Economic Advisor to the Australian Treasurer; MP for the ACT seat of Fraser in the Australian House of Representatives; Director of the UN Division for Social Policy and Development; and Representative of the International Labour Organisation to the UN. He has published extensively on political, economic, social and, strategic issues relating to Australia and the global context including the United Nations. His most recent books have been Dealing with America: the UN, the US and Australia, U of NSW Press, 2005 and To Firmer Ground: Restoring Hope in Australia. . He will be teaching Governance of International Institutions in the first semester of 2008.

Recent Publications'International Strategy for Decent Work', in Eddy Lee and Marco Vivarelli, (Eds) Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction, Macmillan, 2004

'Finance for Development' in Bhajan S. Grewal and Margarita Kumnick, Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy, MUP, Melbourne, 2006

'Howard's End' in Barry Jones (Ed), Coming to the Party: Where to Next for Labor, MUP, Melbourne, 2006

with Anthony Clunies-Ross, ‘Political Economy of Additional Development Finance’, UNU-WIDER Discussion Paper 2006/09, UN University World Institute for Development Economic Research, Helsinki, September 2006

'Labor: Principles and Practice', in Brian Galligan (Ed), Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, OUP, Melbourne, 2007

‘Dealing with America: the UN, the US and Australia’, to be published in the Briefings series by the UNSW Press To Firmer Ground: Restoring Hope in Australia, UNSW Press 2007

Short articles
'United Nations: Kofi Annan's plan for revitalisation’, Australian Policy Online, 24 March.

'Global Politics at the UN', Dissent, Autumn/Winter.

Lectures
'Working at the UN', RMIT, 19 April.

'Politics and social change', Social work students, La Trobe University, 10 May.

'The UN and Australia', IR students, MU, 30 May.