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Reiko Hayashi is currently the Director-General of Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS). Before joining IPSS in 2012, she served in Senegal as technical advisor to the Minister of Health (2008–2011), and was engaged in projects of international cooperation concerning population, health and development in various countries. Her research covers health and longevity, migration, population development and policies. She holds a PhD in policy studies from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan, after obtaining Master of Health Scieneces and Bachelor of Engineering (Architecture) from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and DESS from Université de Paris I, France. She was a trainee at INED (Institut National d'Études Démographiques, France) in 1988/89.  She served as the President of Asian Population Association (2022-2024), a member of ICD and ICF Commissions of Social Security Council of Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, of expert panel of the Japanese government’s Roadmap for the Realization of a Society of Harmonious Coexistence with Foreign Nationals, and Japan’s delegation to the Commission on Population and Development, United Nations.