John Broome

Biography:

LLB (UNSW); B. Juris (UNSW); Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Practitioner of the High Court of Australia.

He has held appointments as

• Chairman, Australian Capital Territory, Gambling and Racing Commission
• Chairman, National Crime Authority
• Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering
• Deputy Chairman, Trade Practices Commission
• Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister and Attorney-General, the Hon Lionel Bowen.
• Consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission including in relation to its inquiries into Privacy and Proceeds of Crime
• Advisory Fellow to the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) within the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University

Shortly after the election of the Mandela Government in South Africa he was engaged by the Commonwealth Secretariat to advise the Minister for Justice on the restricting of the Justice Ministry and development of options to expand the provision of legal aid. 

He held numerous Senior Executive Service positions in the Australian Public Service including as head of the Administrative Law Branch, the Civil Law Division and the Business Affairs Division within the Attorney-General’s Department and as head of the Government and Legal Branch within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Research Interests:

John has an interest in the governance and effectiveness of public agencies, particularly in the delivery of regulatory and law enforcement programs. He has examined anti money laundering and terrorist funding policies and practices both in Australia and the region with a particular interest in developing more effective procedures to combat laundering and corruption.  

Papers and Publications:

John has presented numerous papers at conferences in both Australia and internationally.  These have resulted from his roles as Deputy Chairman of the TPC, Chairman of the NCA, Co-Chair of the APG, his consultancy work and his professorial appointment with CTCP. He has spoken at a number of Australian Institute of Criminology conferences, 21^st Cambridge International Symposium on Financial Crime, 2003, MindTheme/LexisNexis Annual Conference on Money Laundering and Fraud Prevention, Hong Kong, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008, United States Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, 2004 and Beijing Centre for Transnational Crime Annual Conferences 2005, 2006, 2007.

Recent publications are:

• Anti-Money Laundering – International Practice and Policies, Sweet and Maxwell Asia, Hong Kong, 2005
• Terrorist Financing and Government Response in South East Asia, in Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas (Eds), The Political Economy of Terrorism Financing and State Responses: A Comparative Perspective (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).

Professional Activities:

John conducts a private consultancy business in addition to his work at CTCP. He provides advice to private sector clients on how to build a constructive relationship with Government and helps public sector agencies review policies, administrative structures and their responsiveness to Government and the community. He has 30 years experience in public law, policy development, law enforcement, public sector management and administration, inter-government and international relations and in the delivery of donor funded programs in developing economies. He has considerable experience in the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral conventions and treaties.

He has worked closely with the private sector in both policy development and regulatory roles in Australia and overseas. He has also worked extensively with regional governments and institutions. In recent years he has worked on a number of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing projects facilitating the development of national AML and CFT regimes and the use of AML systems as anti corruption mechanisms.

John is a

• Member of the International Bar Association;
• Member of the IBA’s Human Rights Institute;
• Member of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law; and
• Member of the Australian Member Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP)

Consultancies:

John has undertaken consultancies for the Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, the European Commission, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the APEC Secretariat, the Australian National Audit Office, Airservices Australia, KPMG Australia and PricewaterhouseCoopers London.    

He has led teams of international and domestic consultants and has undertaken extensive analysis of training and technical assistance needs relating to anti-money laundering and terrorist financing issues and provided support to the Philippines, Mongolia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam to enhance the anti-money laundering regime in those countries. On a separate ADB project in Thailand he reviewed Thailand’s capacity to meet its obligations for international cooperation in criminal investigations, anti-money laundering and combating terrorist financing and designed a three year program to enhance international cooperation by Thai agencies. This plan was adopted by the Thai Government.

He has conducted reviews of the governance arrangements within public sector organisations and the effectiveness of the delivery of government services.  

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