Alison Joan Ritter AO FASSA is an Australian academic whose research focuses on illicit drug use and policy.
As of 2021 she is a full professor and director of the Drug Policy Modelling Program at the University of New South Wales.
[1] She subsequently was awarded a PhD by the same university in 1998 for her thesis, "The influence of neuropsychological status on response to treatment for alcohol dependence: Coping skills, clinician ratings, self-efficacy and therapist characteristics".
[3] While at the DPMP, Ritter has contributed to government policy in areas such as the regulation of medicinal cannabis and has participated in reviewing the decriminalisation of personal drug use.
[3] She has been a chief investigator in the National Health and Medical Research Council since 2000 and been a member of its grant review panel.