Professor Norah Keating is a socialgerontologist whose theoretical and empirical research has created evidence,challenged discourses and influenced policy in global, social and physicalcontexts of ageing. She has placed this work on the international stage throughthe Global Social Issues on Ageing which fosters collaboration and critical thinking about ageing at theinterfaces of regional issues and global trends. ProfessorKeating holds academic appointments in 3 world regions: University of Alberta,Canada; Swansea University, UK; North-West University, South Africa. She is aFellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Academy of SocialSciences (UK) and the Gerontological Society of America (U.S.). She is pastpresident of the Canadian Association on Gerontology and the North AmericanRegion of the IAGG. In 2017 she was awarded the International Association ofGerontology and Geriatrics Presidential Award for the global reach of herinternational work. She is advisor to the Pan American Health Organization on theUN Decade of Healthy Ageing and is developing a research agenda to complementthe action items on the global agenda for Healthy Ageing.