Jane Shaw Stroup (who also writes as Jane S. Shaw) is chairperson of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. She was president of the center (which was then called the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy) from 2008 until she retired in 2015. Before joining the Martin Center, Stroup spent 22 years with PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. Previously, she was an associate economics editor of Business Week Magazine. With Michael Sanera, she coauthored Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment (Regnery) and initiated a book series for young people, Critical Thinking about Environmental Issues (Greenhaven Press). She coedited A Guide to Smart Growth (Heritage Foundation) with Ronald Utt.
Stroup is a past president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and a current board member of the Philadelphia Society and of the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas. She was married to the late economist Richard Stroup.