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Apr 20, 1936 88 years old
President of SpotQ Services, Inc and President of the Foundation
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About Jerry Lee
- Jerry Lee (born April 20, 1936 in Sharon, Pennsylvania), President of SpotQ Services, Inc, and President of the Jerry 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 Campbell Collaboration, a non-profit global network of program evaluators in crime, education and social services now supported by the government of Norway.
- In 2008 he was Knighted by His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, and in 2010 the American Society of Criminology created an annual award named in his honour, the Jerry Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Experimental Criminology.
