Jane S. Shaw

Jane S. Shaw (who also writes as Jane Shaw Stroup) is the chairperson of the James G. Martin Center’s board of directors. She was president of the center (then known as the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy) between 2007 and 2015, when she retired and joined the board. Before joining the center, 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. (At that time her name was Jane Steidemann.) She received a master’s degree in history from North Carolina State University in 2020.

She currently directs the North Carolina History Encyclopedia, published by the John Locke Foundation. She is a past president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and former board member of the Philadelphia Society and Classical Liberals in the Carolinas. She is 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 was married to the late Richard L. Stroup, who died in 2021.