La Fondation France-France Japon de l'EHESS is pleased to invite you to the conference that Atsushi Seike (Keio University) will give on:
"Towards a Life-long Active Society"

4 May (Friday), from 11 am to 1 pm
At EHESS, Salle du Conseil (salles A & B) 190-198 avenue de France
75244 Paris cedex 13 (M° Quai de la gare)

Anne-Marie Guillemard (Université Paris 5 & EHESS) and David Grubb
(OCDE) will discuss Atsushi Seike's presentation.
The conference will be in English.

We higly recommend you to register at: ffj@ehess.fr

SUMMARY
The population in Japan is very rapidly ageing, even when compared with other developed countries. In order to cope with this drastically ageing population, it is extremely important for us to promote the employment of older people. If we could construct a Life-long Active Society in which the will and ability of older people is fully utilized, that would be one optimal solution for the ageing society. Professor Seike will discuss the possibility of a Life-long Active Society and the necessary reforms of employment systems and social security schemes to realize it.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Atsushi Seike (M.A. & Ph.D., Keio University) became the President of Keio University in 2009. He is Professor at Keio’s Faculty of Business and Commerce since 1992 (Dean in 2007-2009). He was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles; a Consultant at the RAND Corporation; and the Visiting Principal Research Officer at the Economic Research Institute, Economic Planning Agency. He is a specialist in labor economics, authoring many books on this topic in Japanese including Towards an Age-free Society, Labor Economics and Beyond the Lifetime Employment. He is currently a member of the Labor Policy Council, Chairman of the Policy Studies Group for the Aged Society, and a member of the Council on the Realization of the New Growth Strategy. He is also a member of both the WEF Global University Leaders Forum (GULF), and the WEF Global Agenda Council on Ageing. In March 2011 he became the president of The Japan Association of Private Universities and Colleges (JAPUC).