Sarah Harper
Sarah Harper is Professor of Gerontology at Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, a multi-disciplinary research
unit concerned with the implications of population ageing. Her research concerns globalization and global ageing, and the impact of population
change, in particular the implications at the global, societal and individual level of the shift in population ages from predominantly young to
predominantly older societies. Particular research interests are the impact of this demographic shift on intergenerational relationships and work.
She has undertaken research in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Recent professional commitments include Governor, Pensions Policy Institute ; Wellcome Trust Health Consequences of Population Change Panel;
Trustee, Third Age Employment Network, International Assessor, Swedish National Academy, Institute of Ageing Initiative, Sweden
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Advisory Board; Global Advisor on Ageing to HSBC; Member, Help the Aged's Research Strategy Committee
and Help the Aged's Social Policy Committee; and Chair of the Global Commission on Ageing. Sarah is a founding joint editor (with George Leeson)
of the new Journal of Population Ageing, published by Springer. She serves as the UK International Collaborator on the Australian Research Council
/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well; and member of the Scientific Programme Committee of the 2008 IFA Conference (Montreal). She is PI with George
Leeson on the HSBC Global Ageing Study, a survey of 44,000 men and women aged 40 to 80 in 24 countries.
She is the author of several books including most recently Ageing Societies: Myths, Challenges and Opportunities. Hodder Arnold, 2006.