Jane S. Shaw, also known as Jane Shaw Stroup and formerly Jane Steidemann, is an American free-market environmentalist, journalist, editor, and think tank leader. Her professional career began in journalism, where she served as a Washington correspondent for McGraw-Hill Publications from 1977 to 1981 and as associate economics editor at Business Week in New York City prior to 1984. In 1984, she joined the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana, spending 22 years there as a senior fellow and director of communication, focusing on free-market approaches to environmental issues. She later served as former President of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. Shaw holds a B.A. in English literature from Wellesley College. She is a freelance editor and maintains two blogs: janetakesonhistory.org and libertyandecology.org, which explore themes of history and liberty in ecology. Her work emphasizes market-based solutions to environmental and policy challenges.