Ito Peng

Biography

Ito Peng is a Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy and the Director of the Centre for Global Social Policy at the Department of Sociology, and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. She is recognized as a leading researcher and expert in global social policy, specializing in the care economy, gender, migration and care policies. She has written extensively on social policies and political economy of care. She currently leads a SSHRC, Hewlett Foundation, and Open Society Foundations supported global partnership research project, Care Economies in Context and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund supported Comparing Child Care Initiatives in a World of Climate Change Project. She is also the co-lead of the Room 5 for the Rockefeller Foundation-Brookings Institute’s 17-Rooms project. Ito holds a PhD in Social Policy from London School of Economics. For more information, see: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/profile/peng-ito/ and https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/profile/peng-ito/