STAFFORD, Philip B. (Professor, Indiana University)
Director of the Center on Aging and Community at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University; Faculty Affiliate at the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
A cultural anthropologist, Phil received his BA from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Indiana University. Phil has been instrumental in developing a wide range of programs for older persons: Alzheimer's Supports, Adult Day Care, Health Education, Respite Care, Housing Choice, and others. He is active in research and publishing around issues of community development for age-friendly communities. He has employed the humanities as a tool for community development in projects funded by the Retirement Research Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Indiana Humanities, including participatory arts projects in public housing neighborhoods. With support from Grantmakers in Aging, Phil provided leadership for the new Lifelong Indiana Coalition and is spearheading an innovative public policy/land use innovation called a Lifetime Community District along a multi-use trail in downtown Bloomington.
He also serves as a consultant to The AdvantAge Initiative, an age-friendly community project conducted in nearly 40 U.S. cities. He is a past president of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology. He has published numerous articles on cultural aspects of dementia and the relationship between aging and place. His major publications include Gray Areas: Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture (2003, Santa Fe: SAR Press) and Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America (2009: Praeger). He is currently editing a new volume entitled The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement: A Critical Perspective (ND, Berghahn Press). In 2014, Phil was the recipient of the Walter S. Blackburn Award by the Indiana Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, for contributions to the field by a non-architect. In 2015, Phil presented a plenary talk on Lifetime Communities at the 52nd International Making Cities Livable conference in Bristol, U.K. and in 2016 at the same conference in Rome, Italy.

YAMADA Chikako (Professor, Seitoku University)
Chikako Yamada (Ph.D. Anthropology）currently serves as professor at Seitoku University, Japan, in the Faculty of Psychology and Welfare. Her area of specialty is Cultural Anthropology and Studies on Immigrant Communities.
Her publications include：Transition of Japanese Immigrant Community in Canada (2000); “Immigrant Older Adults and Their Communities in Vancouver.” In Suzuki N. et al. (eds.) The Well-being of Older Adults and Cooperation in Life Design (2010); “Proverbial Saying in Nagasaki Islands” In Local Proverb (2014).

SANO-Fujita Mariko (Professor, Hiroshima University)
Mariko　Fujita-Sano （Ph.D. Anthropology）currently serves as professor at Hiroshima University, Japan, in the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, and serves as the director of the Accessibility Center there. Her area of specialty is Cultural Anthropology and Universal Design in Education.
Her publications include：A Search for People’s Life Worth Living of Old Age in America (1999); Life in Riverfront: A Midwestern Town Seen Through Japanese Eyes, (2001); Independent Living in Old Age (2001), and Accessibility and University Education (2009).

SAWANO Michiko (Senior Researcher Ritsumeikan University)
Michiko Sawano (Ph.D. Philosophy) currently serves as senior researcher at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, in research organization of OIC. The area of specialty is Cultural Anthropology and Medical Anthropology.
The publication includes: Medical Anthropology of Women and Their Family who live with Breast Cancer (2017). The articles include: Living in ‘Correctness’ without the Correct Answer: Treatments of Cancer Patients in Korea (2016); Rethinking Korean Families from the Perspective of Caring Reconstruction: The Case of Married Female Breast Cancer Patients (2013).

SUZUKI Nanami (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
Nanami Suzuki (Ph.D. in academics Anthropology) currently serves as professor at National Museum of Ethnology and Graduate University for Advanced Studies. Her area of specialization is Cultural Anthropology and Aging Studies. Her publications include：Historical Anthropology of Childbirth [in Japanese]. Tokyo: Shinyosha (1997). (won the 13^th Nao Aoyama Prize for Women’s History); Historical Anthropology of Healing [in Japanese]. Kyoto: Sekaishisosha (2002); The Well-being of Older Adults and Cooperation in Life Design [in Japanese]. Tokyo: Ochanomizushobo (2010) (co-edited by Kuniko Fujiwara and Mitsuhiro Iwasa), and “Crossing Over: A Story That Reverberates in the world and Outer Space,” In Suzuki N. (ed.) Living in a Community of Resilience: A Comparative Study on the Search for Well-being in Multicultural Aging Societies. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology (2013).