John Braithwaite is a Professor and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network) at the Australian National University.
He has been working since 2004 on a 25-year comparative project called ‘Peacebuilding Compared’, with various co-authors and Camille McMahon. He works on a variety of areas of business regulation and on the crime problem. His best known work is on the ideas of responsive regulation and restorative justice.
John Braithwaite has been active in social movement politics around these and other ideas for 50 years in Australia and internationally. His most recent book is ‘Pharmaceuticals, Corporate Crime and Public Health’ (2014) co-authored with G. Dukes and J.P. Moloney.
John delivered the David Wallace Address, "Regulation and Quality in Aged Care: a Cross-National Perspective" at the 1997 World Congress of Gerontology.