Marc H. Bornstein (born in 1947) is an Affiliate with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, and senior advisor for research for ECD Parenting Programmes at UNICEF in New York City.
Education
Bornstein holds a BA from Columbia College, Columbia University, MS/PhD degrees from Yale University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Padua and University of Trento in Italy and is Honorarprofessor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
Recognition
Bornstein was a J. S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and he received a Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He also received the C. S. Ford Cross-Cultural Research Award from the Human Relations Area Files, the B. R. McCandless Young Scientist Award and the Division 7 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association, a United States PHS Superior Service Award and an Award of Merit from the National Institutes of Health, two Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowships, four Awards for Excellence from the American Mensa Education & Research Foundation, the Arnold Gesell Prize from the Theodor Hellbrügge Foundation, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, and both the Distinguished International Contributions to Child Development Award and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.
Bornstein is founder and director of the International Network of Parenting and Child Development (participating countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, England, France, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Peru, Republic of Korea, the United States), and he has multiple associated research sites (China, Colombia, Jordan, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and 54 UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey LMICs). He is published in Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish, and he has given invited presentations and named lectureships in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Luxembourg, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States.
Position
Bornstein is president emeritus of the Society for Research in Child Development, executive committee member of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, and a past member of the Society for Research in Child Development Governing Council and executive committee of the International Congress of Infant Studies. Bornstein has held faculty positions at Princeton University and New York University as well as academic appointments as visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie in Munich; visiting fellow at University College London; Professeur Invité at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale in the Université René Descartes in Paris; Child Clinical Fellow at the Institute for Behavior Therapy in New York; visiting professor at the University of Tokyo; Professeur Invité at the Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l'Éducation de l'Enfant in the Sorbonne in Paris; visiting fellow of the British Psychological Society; visiting scientist at the Human Development Resource Centre in Bamenda, Cameroon; principal scientist for Parenting and Child Well-being, The Center for Child Well-being, Atlanta, Georgia; visiting scholar at the Institute of Psychology in Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea; visiting professor at the Faculty of Cognitive Science in the University of Trento, Italy; Professor Visitante at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile; Institute for Advanced Studies Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, University of Bristol; Jacobs Foundation Scholar-in-Residence, Marbach, Germany; honorary fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University; adjunct academic member of the council of the Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy; visiting professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; adjunct professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and external member of the LaMarsh Centre for Child & Youth Research at York University in Toronto; and visiting scholar at the Eliot Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University.