John Vance Langmore (born 3 September 1939) is an Australian academic and politician. He was a member of the

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from 1984 to 1996. He studied for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the

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, a Master of Economics degree from

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, and a Diploma of Developmental Economics from the

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. He then worked as a lecturer in economics at the

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from 1969 to 1973. He worked for

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in 1983 and 1984 when Willis was the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations under

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. Langmore was an

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(ALP) politician, and member for the Division of Fraser ( ACT). He resigned from Parliament on 6 December 1996, and was replaced in a

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, another ALP politician. He then worked for the

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(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 the

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; at the time of his appointment in 1997, he was the most senior Australian official in the

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. He is now a professorial fellow in the Department of Political Science at the

, and a visiting fellow at the University of New England. He is also the president of the United Nations Association of Australia and an Australian board member of the

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. He has published several books on public and international policy. On 22 September 2005, he launched ''Dealing with America: The UN, the US and Australia'' (), which examined the relationships the

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in the

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had with the Australian Howard government, and with the United Nations.University of New South Wales (2006)
Dealing with America: book launch
Retrieved 5 July 2006.

Books

''Dealing with America: the UN, the US and Australia'', (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005) ''To Firmer Ground: Restoring Hope in Australia'', (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2007)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Langmore, John 1939 births Living people University of Melbourne faculty Australian political writers Alumni of the University of Cambridge Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Fraser (ACT) Monash University alumni University of Melbourne alumni Economics educators Australian officials of the United Nations International Labour Organization people 20th-century Australian politicians University of Papua New Guinea faculty Members of the Order of Australia