Hideo Ibe

Hideo Ibe is professor emeritus and former president of the Japan College of Social Work, as well as the president of both the Research Institute for Policies on Aging and the Research Foundation on Social Welfare. He is also president of te International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society (Japan), a cooperating organization with the Center of the same name in the United States headed by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert N. Butler. Ibe earned his PhD at the School of Economics, Keio University. His publications in Japanese include Social Planning (1964), Women and Pensions (1975), A Treatise on New Poor Law (1979), Future Prospects of Social Welfare (1987), and Social Security in 50 Years (1987).