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Dr Alan Walker is Professor of
Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is Director
of The European Research Area in Ageing (http://www.shef.ac.uk/era-age/).
Preiviously he was Director of
the Economic and Social Research Council's Growing Older Programme
(http://www.shef.ac.uk/
uni/projects/gop/index.htm), the UK National Collaboration
on Ageing Research (http://www.shef.ac.uk/ukncar/)
and the European Forum on Population Ageing Research (http://www.shef.ac.uk/
ageingresearch/).
He is co-founder and Chair of
the European Foundation on Social Quality. He was a member of
the Technical Committee responsible for drafting the 2002 UN
Plan of Action on Ageing. Previously he chaired the European
Commission's Observatory on Ageing and Older People.
He has been researching and writing
on social policy and related issues for nearly 30 years and
has published more than 20 books, 200 reports and 300 scientific
papers. Recent books include The New Generational Contract,
Ageing Europe, Combating Age Barriers in Employment; The Politics
of Old Age in Europe, The Social Quality of Europe, East Asian
Welfare Regimes in Transition and Growing Older: Quality of
Life in Old Age. He has held 7 visiting Chairs in Canada, China
(Hong Kong) Israel and Japan.
