John Braithwaite is a Professor and a Founder of RegNet at the Australian National University and a former Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance. He has been working since 2004 on a 35-year comparative project called 'Peacebuilding Compared', with dozens of co-authors. 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 books are Open Access: Simple Solutions to Complex Catastrophes: Dialectics of Peace, Climate, Finance and Health (2024); and Macrocriminology and Freedom (2022).