30th September 2025
ILC-Brazil’s president, and former ILC Global Alliance co-President, Dr Alexandre Kalache turns 80 this month, October 2025.
A medical epidemiologist, Alex has dedicated his career to the study of ageing.
Following his medical training in Brazil, and then his MSc and PhD in the United Kingdom, Dr. Kalache held research and teaching positions at both the Universities of Oxford and London for almost twenty years. During this time, he founded the Epidemiology of Ageing Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1983) and created the first European Masters degree in Health Promotion (1991). From 1995-2008, he directed the World Health Organization’s global Ageing and Life Course Programme from the Geneva headquarters. During his thirteen years at WHO, he launched the Active Ageing Policy Framework and the global movement on Age-Friendly Cities, among many other enduring initiatives.
In 2012, Alexandre Kalache took up the Presidency of the newly created International Longevity Centre-Brazil in his home city of Rio de Janeiro. ILC-Brazil is an autonomous think tank which is part of the ILC Global Alliance, an international consortium of sixteen such centres. Concurrently, Dr Kalache serves as Global Ambassador of HelpAge International and has sat on a multitude of boards ranging from the World Economic Forum to the Gulbenkian Foundation.
The members of the ILC Global Alliance took this opportunity to wish him a happy birthday and thank him for the many years of guidance and friendship.
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17th September 2026
In Memoriam: Professor Tetsuo Tsuji, President of ILC Japan
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Professor Tetsuo Tsuji on July 30, 2026. At the time of his passing, Professor Tsuji was President of ILC Japan and, until March 2026, a Professor at the Institute of Gerontology, University of Tokyo, one of Japan’s leading institutions for research on ageing.
30 July 2026
ILC Singapore: Tsao Foundation appoints Geraldyn Lim as Chief Executive Officer
Tsao Foundation, has appointed Ms Geraldyn Lim as its Chief Executive Officer with effect from 26 August 2026. The announcement follows a comprehensive search by the Foundation.
26th August 2026
