John Ermisch

John Ermisch is Emeritus Professor of Family Demography at the University of Oxford, a senior research fellow at Nuffield College and a Fellow of the British Academy (since 1995). He is the author of An Economic Analysis of the Family (Princeton University Press, 2003), Lone Parenthood: An Economic Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and The Political Economy of Demographic Change (Heinemann, 1983), as well as numerous articles in economic, sociology and demographic journals.  He is Editor-in-Chief of Population Studies. His research is concerned with the structure and dynamics of families and their interaction with wider society. He has studied the allocation of resources within the family, the transmission of advantage across generations, non-marital childbearing, the interaction of child support and non-resident fathers’ contact with their children, the impact of family ties on trust in strangers, the effect of fertility expectations on residential mobility and the geographic proximity of parents to children and its relation to the migration patterns of the child generation and to in-kind help from them to parents.

Haruka Sakamoto

Haruka Sakamoto is an Associate Professor at Tokyo Women’s Medical University and Senior Manager at the Health and Global Policy Institute. She is a primary care doctor and a project researcher at the Department of Global Health Policy in the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Medicine. She received her MD from Sapporo Medical University and worked for several years as a doctor at St Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo. With a scholarship from the World Bank, she received her MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. During 2011-2013 and 2016, she worked at the International Cooperation Department of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, where she was deeply involved in health policy. As part of her work, she participated in WHO meetings, G7 meetings, and bilateral cooperation activities through the Japan International Cooperation Agency. She is also currently working at the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Regional Office and is Senior Fellow at Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research.

Willem Adema (moderator)

Willem Adema is a Senior Economist in the OECD’s Social Policy Division. Willem leads a team of analysts of family, children, gender and housing policies and his team maintains the OECD Family Database; the OECD Gender Data Portal; the OECD Social Expenditure Database and the OECD Affordable Housing Database. OECD reports produced in recent years by Willem and his team include: Exploring Norway’s Fertility, Work, and Family Policy Trends,Policy Actions for Affordable Housing in Lithuania, Joining Forces for Gender Equality: What is Holding us Back?, The Role of Firms in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany, Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022, and Rejuvenating Korea – Policies for a Changing Society; Willem graduated from Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds a Doctorate from St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.