Kofi Marfo, is Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Human Development at Aga Khan University (South-Central Asia, East Africa, and UK). He was the Founding Director of the Center for Research on Children’s Development and Learning at the University of South Florida, where he was Professor of Educational Psychology (and Special Education) from 1992-2014. His current scholarly interests are in the areas of developmental science, social policy and childhood interventions, the advancement of a global science of human development, and philosophical issues in behavioral science and education research. He has published extensively in the areas of early child development, early intervention efficacy, parent-child interaction, behavioral development in children adopted from China, and childhood disability in low- and middle-income countries. His scholarship has been cited across disciplines in over 180 different journals worldwide. He is co-leader of an initiative to support child development research capacity-building in Africa and is a co-convener of the African Scholars in Child/Early Child Development Workshop series. He is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, and the American Educational Research Association.. He was, for four years, a member of NICHD’s Bio-Behavioral and Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee. He is a member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development and serves in advisory roles for two private foundations with substantial investments in early childhood development. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta, Canada (M.Ed. and Ph.D.) and the University of Cape Coast, Ghana (B.Ed., Honors).
