Douglas H. Whalen is an American linguist who is presently a program officer at the National Science Foundation where he is affiliated with the Cognitive Neuroscience,[1] Documenting Endangered Languages,[2] and Linguistics[3] programs. He is also the Vice President for Research and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories where he studies from the motor theory of speech perception perspective the relationship between speech production and speech perception. He is also the President of the Endangered Language Fund and a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in linguistics.