GOLTC Webinar recording: Pensions in Southern Africa – how and why do they vary across the region?

GOLTC Care and Social Protection in Southern Africa Interest Group webinar Date: 31 May 2024 Time: 12:00–13:30 BST In this webinar we heard from three experts who have extensive knowledge on social protection and pensions in the (southern) African context. Several countries in the region have invested significantly in non-contributory pension programmes albeit in different […]

Namara Arthur Araali

Namara Arthur Araali is a Ugandan gerontologist and public health scientist with a Master’s Degree in Gerontology from the University of Southampton, UK. He is a member of the Uganda National Council for Older Persons under the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, where he chairs the Research and Documentation Committee. Arthur works with the […]

Qixin Cai

Qixin Cai received professional training from the Collaborative for Innovation in Data & Measurement in Aging (CIDMA) Institute at the University of Chicago (2023-2024) and University of Michigan (2025), and Peking University Institute of Population Research (2025), participated in the “Summer Institute on Ageing: The Value of Longitudinal Data to Study Ageing” at Venice International […]

Cati Coe

Cati Coe is the Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care and Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr. Coe is an internationally recognized leader in the scholarship of transnational families, aging, and care work, winning awards for her previous books The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality (2013), The New American […]

Sara Elkiki

Policy Advisor Long-Term Care at Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands

Long Giang

THANH-LONG GIANG is currently an Professor at National Economics University; a Senior Researcher at Institute of Social and Medical Studies (ISMS); and an Affiliate Research Fellow of Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford (UK). Prof. Long’s research interests include the economics of aging, particularly in pension and health insurance. His research […]

Bent Greve

Professor in Social Science at the University of Roskilde, Denmark. Comparative welfare state analysis is the central topic – ranging from long-term care, labour market to financing welfare states.

Halldór Sigurður Guðmundsson

Associate Professor – Associate professor in Social Work. Vice-Dean of Faculty of Social Work

Halldór Sigurður Guðmundsson

I have been working on the issues of elderly people since 1982. I started working at the University of Iceland in 2008 and am now an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Work and vice-dean. My approach to research, teaching, collaborative networks and policy work has been in this field and in general in […]

Myra Hamilton

Associate Professor Myra Hamilton is an ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellow in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. She is a sociologist and social policy scholar whose research focus is on gender, work and care over the lifecourse. Myra’s research explores how workplace and public policies and programs can build […]

Thore Hansen

Susana Harding

I have 22 years of work experience in ageing sector and the community in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region. Trained as an Economist, I have built my expertise in gender and developed my skills in research and advocacy.

Abhijith Jose

Currently working as Technical Officer- Healthy Ageing at World Health Organization Country Office for India

Jiaru Liu

Jiaru is a PhD candidate in Economics at King’s College London. Her works in public and health economics, with a particular focus on aging population. Her research explores how public policies (pension, education reform) shape older people’s health.

Peiyi Lu

Dr. Lu is a gerontologist with expertise in social work, public health, and statistics. Her research interests broadly include gerontological social work, health disparity, social welfare policy related to aging, and quantitative methodology. She specializes in investigating the socioeconomic and cultural determinants of health in later life using cross-national and longitudinal survey data. She also […]

Emiko Masaki

Emiko (Emi) Masaki is a Principal Health Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with nearly 20 years of experience in program development, implementation, policy advisory, and regional cooperation in health and social sectors in Asia. Her work spans a broad range of issues, with a focus on enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and sustainability […]

Alessandra Palomar Fuertes

Alessandra is a PhD student at the University of Bologna working on care work and inequalities whose research focuses on the causal impact of public policies. Alessandra also works on projects on the eco-social transition, feminism and heterodox economics as a member of Espai08, an interdisciplinary and progressive think tank in Catalonia.

Thet Htoo Pan

MD, PhD candidate at Department of Global Health Research, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan. She is dedicated to exploring digital inclusion and its impact on healthy ageing. Her research aims to bridge the gray digital divide and improve quality of life for older adults

Virginija Poškutė

Virginija Poškutė, Professor at the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania. She is an economist and social policy analyst, holds PhD in Economics from Vilnius University (Lithuania), Master’s degree from Roskilde University (Denmark) and University of Bath (UK). Virginija was visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley and Fulbright researcher at Darden […]

Rosie Read

I am Principal Lecturer Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University, UK. I am a social anthropologist and my research spans social anthropology and sociology, using a range oof qualitative and ethnographic research methods.

Lisa Waldenburger

Lisa Waldenburger is a researcher at the University of Innsbruck, working on the research project ‘Learning from long-term care practices for the European Care Strategy (LeTs-Care)’. She has a background in sociology and human geography, and has conducted research on topics such as the ‘Intimisation of the Public’ and ‘Digital Stress in Everyday Media Life’. […]

Karen Watson

Dr Karen Watson (RN, PhD, BN (Hons), BHlthSc (Naturop)) is a Senior Lecturer in Healthy Ageing and Care of the Older Person with the Susan Wakil School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. Dr Watson is an experienced aged care academic, focusing on healthy ageing and the care needs of […]

Karen Wee

Karen Wee is a transformational change-maker, strategist, innovator and successful implementor with 36 years of volunteering experience (globally and locally) and 13 years of professional experience in non-profit sector. With experience in full spectrum of non-profit sector in APAC, working at government (NCSS), civil organisation (NVPC), international NPO (YMCA and Lions Clubs’ Lions Befrienders) and […]

Zhuoyi WEN

Dr. WEN Zhuoyi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include policy sciences, comparative social policy, state–society relations, and nonprofit management. His work has appeared in Journal of Social Policy, Ageing and Society, China Information, Social Policy and Administration, Social […]

Meredith Wyse

Experienced policy and program specialist with over 20 years of technical and managerial leadership in aging, long-term care and social protection across Asia and the Pacific. Track record of designing and delivering projects through roles in Asian Development Bank (ADB) and HelpAge International. Areas of interest include social protection, social services and the care economy, […]