Paula R. Singer

Paula R. Singer

President and CEO, Laureate Global Products and Services

Paula R. Singer is the president and CEO of the Laureate Global Products and Services Group, where she leads the company’s international online, network products and services, information technology, and U.S. campus-based operations, as well as its global programs in hospitality management; culinary arts; and architecture, art and design.

She has served in a number of senior leadership roles since joining Laureate Education, Inc. (formerly Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc.) in 1993, including leadership of all Laureate online postsecondary businesses and the company’s entry into the postsecondary education market with the acquisition of Canter & Associates in 1997.

Previously, Ms. Singer served as president of Sylvan Education Solutions (now Catapult Learning), where she led the educational support services division. Ms. Singer formerly held several senior positions at American Learning Corporation, a subsidiary of Encyclopedia Britannica, including vice president of marketing, executive vice president of operations, and general manager.

Ms. Singer earned a B.S. in Education from the University of Connecticut, where she was the first education major to be selected for the prestigious University Scholar program. She also holds an advanced certificate as a Montessori teacher from the American Montessori Society.

In 2004, Ms. Singer was recognized as one of five Enterprising Women in Maryland by the Baltimore Business Journal. She was named one of “Maryland’s Top 100 Women” three times by the Maryland Daily Record, earning her induction into the publication’s prestigious “Circle of Excellence.” She also was named one of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland’s Distinguished Women of 2009, and is the recipient of a 2009 Leader Award from the YWCA of the Greater Baltimore Area.

Ms. Singer is an active leader of the United Way, and serves on the organization’s Women’s Leadership Council, which is committed to improving local communities and the quality of life for children.

Ms. Singer is an advisory board member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, and a member of the Board of Directors of Baltimore Volunteers Unlimited (BVU). She also served for six years as the secretary and executive committee member of the board of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School; she remains an active volunteer at the school today.