John Niland

John Rodney Niland AC (born 10 September 1940) is an Australian academic and board director.

He served as a mediator of labour disputes in the US while at Cornell, and in Australia has undertaken extensive academic and policy work in conflict resolution, theory and practice, particularly enterprise bargaining.

He also served a term as President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, and was a member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.

In 2007 he received the President’s Prize of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects for the UNSW campus redevelopment.

Until recently, he chaired the International Academic Review Panel of Singapore Management University, having been closely involved with SMU since its founding in 2000.