Feature Team Members

Hikaru Yamagashi is an Economist with the Women, Business and the Law project. Prior to joining the team in April 2024, Hikaru conducted research in political economy and comparative politics at Stanford University and Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow and at Yale University as a graduate student. Her work on political representation, gender, and electoral politics has been published in top peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. A Japanese national, she holds a bachelor’s degree in government and Asian and Middle Eastern studies from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in East Asian studies from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.