Robert Singer

Robert Singer was born in 1956 in Chernivtsi

Robert Singer was born in 1956 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. He immigrated to Israel with his family as a teenager.

He completed a bachelor's degree at Tel Aviv University in 1976. In 1996 he received a master's degree in management engineering from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. From 2005 to 2008 he took executive courses at Harvard and Columbia business schools.

He served in the IDF from 1976 to 1987, including as a senior education officer. He later worked in the Prime Minister's Office, where he helped start programs such as Naaleh and Heftziba. Through Nativ he helped bring Soviet Jews to Israel in the late 1980s.

He was CEO of World ORT from 1999 to 2013 and later chaired its board of trustees from 2020 to 2023. From May 2013 to July 2019 he was CEO and executive vice president of the World Jewish Congress. There he created a program department, opened an office in Washington and reopened the Geneva office.

In 2019 he founded Spero Impact Solutions, an impact investment and consulting firm. He chairs the Center for Jewish Impact and the nonprofits SASA Setton and Alumot Or as a volunteer.