Jerry Lee

Jerry Lee (born April 20, 1936 in Sharon, Pennsylvania) is President of the Jerry Lee Foundation. A philanthropist of crime prevention, education and evidence-based policy-making, he was the original donor of the , 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 is Chairman of Philadelphia Radio Station WBEB-FM 101, now known as MORE-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 National Board of Education Sciences from 2004 to 2008, he helped to supervise over $1 billion in research funding decisions by the National Institute of Education Sciences. In 2000 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.

In 1960, Jerry Lee graduated from Youngstown State University in Ohio with a bachelor's degree in Economics. He began his career with concerts for touring bands in eastern Ohio, whilst he studied the future of the radio industry. In 1963 he moved to Philadelphia, where he formed a partnership with the late Dave Kurtz to launch a brand new radio station, WDVR – 101 FM. One of the first stations in the US to use a “Beautiful Music” format, WDVR attracted the largest FM radio audience in the Philadelphia area within five months of its launch.

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