Hirokazu Yoshikawa

National Advisory Board Member
Hirokazu Yoshikawa is the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU, and Co-Director of the Global TIES for Children Center at NYU.
Email: hy2042@nyu.edu

Hirokazu Yoshikawa is the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU, and Co-Director (with J. Lawrence Aber) of the Global TIES for Children Center at NYU. He previously served on the faculty and as the Academic Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a community and developmental psychologist who studies the effects of public policies and programs related to immigration, early childhood, and poverty reduction on children’s development. In the United States he has studied child development among mixed-status immigrant families from Latin America and Asia. He currently directs multi-method research evaluating early childhood programming for refugee, migrant and displaced households among Syrian refugees in the Middle East, the Rohingya in Bangladesh, and Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Education, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.