Jane S. Shaw

Jane S. Shaw is an American free-market environmentalist, editor, and journalist. She is the former president of the The [John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy|James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal] and currently is chairman of its board of directors. She is a free-lance editor and manages two blogs, and .
Before joining the Martin Center, Shaw spent 22 years with the Property and Environment Research Center, where she was a senior fellow. Prior to her tenure at PERC, she was a journalist and was an associate economics editor of Business Week. With Michael Sanera, she coauthored Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment and initiated a book series for young people, Critical Thinking about Environmental Issues. She coedited A Guide to Smart Growth with Ronald Utt. She also served as president of the Association of [Private Enterprise Education].
Shaw served as trustee of the Philadelphia Society from 1999 to 2002 and 2012 to 2015. Shaw is a senior editor with the journal Political Economy of the Carolinas, a member of the advisory council of the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs and of the Board of Visitors of Ralston College, an editorial advisor to the online journal Econ Journal Watch, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Regulation, a magazine relating to public policy published by the Cato Institute.
She was married to the late economist Richard Stroup.