Alison Singer, MBA

Alison Singer is Co-Founder and President of the Autism Science Foundation (ASF), which supports autism research by providing funding and other assistance to scientists and organizations conducting, facilitating, publicizing, and disseminating autism research. She served on the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee for 12 years, where she chaired the Safety and Housing Workgroups and serve on the subcommittee responsible for an annual strategic plan to guide federal spending for autism research. Ms. Singer currently serves on the executive boards of the Yale Child Study Center, the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) and the Marcus Autism Center at Emory University, among others. She also serves on the external advisory board of the CDC’s Center for Developmental Disabilities. In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics named her an “autism champion.” She has received the INSAR “Outstanding Research Advocate” award as well as the New York Families for Autistic Children Research Advocacy Award.

Prior to founding the Autism Science Foundation, she served as executive vice president of Autism Speaks and as a vice president at NBC. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a bachelor’s in Economics and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2020, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Emory University.