John Vance Langmore was born on 3 September 1939 and is an Australian academic and politician.
10 Facts About John Langmore
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John Langmore was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1984 to 1996.
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John Langmore studied for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Melbourne, a Master of Economics degree from Monash University, and a Diploma of Developmental Economics from the University of Cambridge.
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John Langmore then worked as a lecturer in economics at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1969 to 1973.
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John Langmore worked for Ralph Willis in 1983 and 1984 when Willis was the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations under Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
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John Langmore resigned from Parliament on 6 December 1996, and was replaced in a by-election by Steve Dargavel, another ALP politician.
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John Langmore then worked for the United Nations, 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 the International Labour Organization; at the time of his appointment in 1997, he was the most senior Australian official in the United Nations Secretariat.
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John Langmore is a professorial fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and a visiting fellow at the University of New England.
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John Langmore is the president of the United Nations Association of Australia and an Australian board member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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John Langmore has published several books on public and international policy.