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Stuart Hart is Deputy Director of the International Institute for Child Rights and Development, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria , British Columbia ; and Founding Director of the Office for the Study of the Psychological Rights of the Child and Professor Emeritus of the School of Education , Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

He is the present Chairperson for the Children's Rights Committee and Past President of the International School Psychology Association, the Past President of the National Association of School Psychologists (USA), and the Past-President of the National Committee for the Rights of the Child (USA).

He co-directed, with Marla Brassard of Columbia University , a national study that produced the operational definitions for psychological maltreatment of children now used in many parts of the world.

He directed a 22-country research project on children's perceptions of children's rights and he organized and contributed to the publication of its findings in School Psychology International (22, 2, May 2001).

He is a director of CRED-PRO, an international program of child rights education for professionals serving children and families.

He has presented and published extensively on psychological maltreatment of children and on children's rights.

He is a member of the NGO Advisory Panel for the UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children and he is on the editorial boards of Child Abuse and Neglect – The International Journal, School Psychology International, and the Journal of Emotional Abuse.

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