Ito Peng
Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary and International Affairs, University of Toronto.
Contributor Biography
Ito Peng is the Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary and International Affairs, and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto.
She teaches political sociology and comparative public policy, specializing in family and gender policies and comparative welfare states. She has written extensively on gender, labour market, and welfare states in Japan and Korea, and political economy of social policy reforms in East Asia.
Her current research includes: 1) UNRISD research project on political and social economy of care in eight countries; 2) SSHRC funded project comparing social investment policies in Canada, Australia, Japan, and South Korea; and 3) an international comparative research project on intra-regional care migration and social policies in Asia.
Professor Peng is an associate researcher with the UNRISD and a research fellow at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Dr. Peng received her PhD from London School of Economics.
