Dr. Ito Peng

Dr. Ito Peng is the Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy and the director of the Centre for Global Social Policy at the University of Toronto. She works on global social policy and political economy, specializing in the care economy, and family, gender, migration, and climate change policies. She currently leads two research projects: 1) Care Economies in Context, a global partnership research project that investigates care infrastructures in 9 countries in 5 global regions and uses that data to develop gender-sensitive macroeconomic models of care economies in these countries; and 2) Care and Climate Change Policies project, a task force for the Royal Society of Canada, aimed to compile a package of policy briefs on different dimensions of care and climate change. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a distinguished fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and a member of ESDC’s Sectoral Table on the Care Economy.