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Ito Peng is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He serves as the Director of the Centre for Global Social Policy and is a Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy. His academic work encompasses political sociology, focusing on family, gender, demographic issues, migration, and comparative social policy. He has extensively researched family gender policies, labor market changes, and the social political economy of care in East Asia. His current research project, funded by SSHRC, investigates the interplay between care work, global migration, and family gender relations. Professor Peng has held several leadership roles at the University of Toronto, including Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary & International Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He has also served as Chair of the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies and has been a senior fellow at Massey College and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He began his career in research at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in 1996 and earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
Department of Sociology