John Langmore | |
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| Member of theAustralian Parliament forFraser | |
| In office 1 December 1984 – 6 December 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Ken Fry |
| Succeeded by | Steve Dargavel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1939-09-03)3 September 1939 (age 86) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne Monash University University of Cambridge |
| Occupation | Lecturer |
John Vance LangmoreAM (born 3 September 1939) is an Australian academic and politician. He was a member of theAustralian House of Representatives from 1984 to 1996.
He studied for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at theUniversity of Melbourne, a Master of Economics degree fromMonash University, and a Diploma of Developmental Economics from theUniversity of Cambridge. He then worked as a lecturer in economics at theUniversity of Papua New Guinea from 1969 to 1973. He worked forRalph Willis in 1983 and 1984 when Willis was the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations underPrime MinisterBob Hawke.[1]
Langmore was anAustralian Labor Party (ALP) politician, and member for theDivision of Fraser (ACT). He resigned from Parliament on 6 December 1996, and was replaced in aby-election bySteve Dargavel, another ALP politician. He then worked for theUnited Nations (UN), as the director of the Division for Social Policy and Development in the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs from 1997 to 2002, and then as UN representative of theInternational Labour Organization; at the time of his appointment in 1997, he was the most senior Australian official in theUnited Nations Secretariat.[2]
He is now a professorial fellow in the Department of Political Science at theUniversity of Melbourne, and a visiting fellow at theUniversity of New England. He is also the president of the United Nations Association of Australia and an Australian board member of theInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.[2][3]
He has published several books on public and international policy. On 22 September 2005, he launchedDealing with America: The UN, the US and Australia (ISBN 0-86840-970-7), which examined the relationships theGeorge W. Bushadministration in theUnited States had with the AustralianHoward government, and with the United Nations.[4]
Dealing with America: the UN, the US and Australia, (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005)
To Firmer Ground: Restoring Hope in Australia, (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2007)
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