Jerry Lee

Jerry Lee (born April 20, 1936 in Sharon, Pennsylvania) is the President of SpotQ Services Inc and the Lee Foundation. A philanthropist of crime prevention, education and evidence-based policy-making, he was the original donor of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and the Coalition for Evidence-based policy in Washington. He was the former owner of Philadelphia Radio Station, WBEB-FM, the last independent radio station in a major media market. Appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences from 2004 to 2008, he helped to supervise over $1 billion in research funding decisions by the Institute of Education Sciences. In 2000, he was a founding Trustee of the Cam...