Hirokazu Yoshikawa

New York University

University Professor of Globalization and Education

Hirokazu Yoshikawa is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Development and Education. He is a community and developmental psychologist who conducts research-practice, research-policy, and research-advocacy partnerships concerning public policies and programs related to immigration, poverty, gender and sexuality on child and youth development. He has conducted work in the United States as well as Latin America, South Asia and the Middle East. He was the founding Co-Director of the Global TIES for Children Center at NYU (from 2014 to 2024), a center now directed by Florencia Lopez-Boo. He is the author of Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children (2011, Russell Sage). He has served on the National Board of Education Sciences under the Obama and Biden administrations, and currently serves on the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel as well as the Board of Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation. In 2023 he received the award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy and Practice in Child Development from the Society for Research in Child Development, and in 2025 he was awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize of the Jacobs Foundation. He obtained as Masters in piano performance from The Juilliard School and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from NYU.