Dr. Ito Peng

Ito Peng is the 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 at the University of Toronto.  

She is a leading researcher and expert in global social policy and political economy, specializing in the care economy, and family, gender, migration, and climate change policies, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.  

She currently leads two international projects: 1) Care Economies in Context: towards sustainable social and economic development, a global partnership research project that investigates care infrastructures in nine countries in five 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 Taskforce for the Royal Society of Canada, aimed to compile a package of policy briefs on different dimensions of care and climate change.  

Dr. Peng is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and currently serves as a thought leader for the Foundation's Women’s Business Missions to Asia Pacific initiative. She also served as a co-lead for the Room 5 for the Rockefeller Foundation-Brookings Institute’s 17-Rooms Global Flagship project (2021-2023).