Anuja R Singh is the Principal of the Sankara Nethralaya Academy, Unit of Medical Research Foundation, Chennai. She also heads the Optometry Department and is currently, the Program Director, India for the Fellowship of British Dispensing Opticians (FBDO) program, conducted in collaboration with Association of British Dispensing Opticians, UK since 2011

As Principal, she oversees the operations, administration and expansion activities of the SN Academy programs, which includes under graduate, post graduate degrees, various Fellowship courses, Certificate level courses, Distance learning programs and academic programs at SN Kolkata, conducted by The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, the academic arm of Sankara Nethralaya and unit of Medical Research Foundation.

Trained as an Optometrist, she has a total work experience of 27 years in the Allied Health Sciences domain in various capacities as Clinician, Consultant Optometrist, Entrepreneur, Clinical Instructor, Educator and an Academic administrator. She believes in innovative approaches to Education and has been instrumental in introducing many new courses at TSNA with a win-win approach to all the stakeholders.

An Alumnus of Elite School of Optometry, she started her career with Udhi Eye Hospitals and later as an independent Optometry Practitioner for 11 years. She moved to Chandigarh in 2006 where she worked as a Speciality contact lens practitioner, LASIK Optometrist, and as Electrophysiologist while working as the academic incharge for the B.Sc degree in Optometry under IGNOU. She returned to SN in 2012 and has been working at SN since then.

She hold a M.Phil and Ph. D degree apart from a Post Graduate Diploma in Education management and administration.