André Singer

André Singer is a British documentary film-maker, as well as an anthropologist. He is currently CEO of Spring Films Ltd of London, a Professorial Research Associate at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, and was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland from 2014-2018. Born in London, he studied at University Hall, Buckland and then at first Keble College and subsequently Exeter College, Oxford University under Professor Sir E.E. Evans-Pritchard, specialising in Iran and Afghanistan for his doctorate. He started working in television in the early 1970s as a researcher, then as a producer and director for the Disappearing World series at Gra…