Henry Laurence

Research Project: Who Cares for the Elderly? The Comparative Politics of Elder Care in the US, UK and Japan

Dr. Laurence is a professor and chair of the Department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College, where he has also served as Director of the Asian Studies Program. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and a B.A. from Oriel College, Oxford University. His research interests are in the comparative political economy of social welfare, media and finance. He is the author of The Politics of Public Broadcasting in Britain and Japan: the BBC and NHK Compared (Routledge, 2023) and Money Rules: the New Politics of Finance in Britain and Japan (Cornell University Press 2001). He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Digital Media and Politics and before entering academia he worked as a fund manager for the Bank of Tokyo International and for Lloyds of London. He is launching a new research project, titled “Who Cares for the Elderly? The Comparative Politics of Elder Care in the US, UK and Japan.”

Pronouns: he/his