Dr.  Hirokazu Yoshikawa is the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU. He is a core faculty member of the the Psychology of Social Intervention and Human Development Research and Policy programs at Steinhardt. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change and Metropolitan Center for Equity and the Transformation of Schools. From 2014 to 2024 he was a founding co-director (with J. Lawrence Aber) of the Global TIES for Children center at NYU, now led by Florencia Lopez Boo. He is a community and developmental psychologist who conducts research-policy and research-practice partnerships related to immigration, early childhood, youth development, and poverty reduction across the lifespan. He conducts research in the United States and in Latin America, South Asia and the Middle East. His recent projects include a project with the Universidad de los Andes and University of Cape Coast to support capacity exchange for early-career scholars of child and youth development in Colombia and Ghana; work in 3 states on gender-sexuality alliances and youth development (with Paul Poteat, Jerel Calzo and Robert Marx); a project on experiences of Florida’s K12 education policies (with Mica Pollock); leading the research and evaluation for Ahlan Simsim, the first MacArthur Foundation 100&Change award (with Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee, implementing and evaluating early childhood programming for Syrian refugee families in the Middle East, as well as Play to Learn, providing and evaluating early childhood programs for Rohingya in Bangladesh as well as in humanitarian contexts in the Middle East and Colombia; the first experimental evaluation of an unconditional cash transfer for families with young children in the United States (with Kimberly Noble, Katherine Magnuson, Lisa Gennetian, Greg Duncan, Nathan Fox and Sarah Halpern-Meekin); and the Listening Project, a project to foster interpersonal curiosity and transformative listening and interviewing to address the societal crisis of connection (with Niobe Way, Jinjoo Han and Joseph Nelson). His books include Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality (with Ajay Chaudry, Taryn Morrissey, and Christina Weiland, 2021, 2nd edition, Russell Sage) and Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children (2011, Russell Sage). He serves on the Board of Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation; the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP); and the LEVANTE advisory board of the Jacobs Foundation. He served on the National Board on Education Sciences during the Obama and Biden administrations. 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. He has received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Policy and Practice from the Society for Research in Child Development and an honorary doctorate from Utrecht University. In the fall of 2024 he was the Margaret Olivia Sage senior scholar in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation.