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. Her research focuses on global social policy and political economy, specializing in the care economy, and family, gender, migration, and climate change policies. She teaches Political Sociology and Social Contexts of Public Policymaking in Department of Sociology and the Munk School. She currently leads two research projects: 1) Care Economies in Context: towards sustainable social and economic development, 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 Taskforce for the Royal Society of Canada, aimed to compile a package of policy briefs and think pieces on different dimensions of care and climate change.
She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the Sectoral Table on the Care Economy for the Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), and a distinguished fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, currently serving as a thought leader for the foundation’s Women’s Business Missions to Asia Pacific initiative. She was a co-lead for the Room 5 for the Rockefeller Foundation-Brookings Institute’s 17-Rooms Global Flagship project (2021-2023).
