Author Profile

Jane S. Shaw

Jane S. Shaw (who also writes under the name Jane Shaw Stroup) was president of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy (now the Martin Center for Academic Renewal) until February 2015, when she retired and joined the center's board of directors. She is now chairperson of the Martin Center's board.

Before joining the center in 2006, she was a senior fellow of PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center, in Bozeman, Montana. Before moving into higher-education policy, Shaw was a frequent writer and speaker on environmental topics. With Michael Sanera she coauthored Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment (Regnery 1999). She coedited A Guide to Smart Growth: Shattering Myths and Providing Solutions (Heritage Foundation, 2000) with Ronald Utt. Before joining PERC in 1984, she was an associate economics editor of Business Week. Shaw has a B.A. in English literature from Wellesley College and in 2020 received a master's degree in history from North Carolina State University.

Shaw is a past president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, editorial adviser to Econ Journal Watch, a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Regulation, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London). She is a board member of the Philadelphia Society and Classical Liberals in the Carolinas. She was married to the late economist Richard L. Stroup.