Neelam Singh is an alumni of the University of Delhi, the Indian Institute of Mass Communications and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. 

She has been associated with the social development sector since 1986 and with the children’s rights movement since 1992.

Since 1999, Neelam has been an independent researcher and consultant for international and national organizations working for children's rights and rights-based development in South, South-east and East Asia and the Pacific, Eastern and Southern Africa.

She has undertaken various country level situation analysis of children, reviews and evaluations of projects and programmes on issues concerning children.