Sharon Witherspoon
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Sharon Fae Witherspoon, Lady Jowell MBE FAcSS (born 1956)[1] is a British statistician serving as Head of Policy of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Campaign for Social Science, and as a member of the Review Body on Senior Salaries of the British government.[2] For four years, she was Vice President for Education and Statistical Literacy of the Royal Statistical Society.[3]
Witherspoon went to high school in the United States, and earned a degree in sociology at an American university, before her postgraduate study of historical sociology at the London School of Economics.[4][5] She worked for a market research firm before becoming a researcher at Social and Community Planning Research, which later became the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen).[4] At NatCen, Witherspoon was one of the initial researchers of the British Social Attitudes Survey.[6] She worked for the Nuffield Foundation from 1996 to 2015, and was director of the foundation from 2012 until 2015. She moved to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2016.[2][7][8]
