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.
[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] At NatCen, Witherspoon was one of the initial researchers of the British Social Attitudes Survey.
[7] In 2015, University College London gave her an honorary doctorate.
[9] Witherspoon married one of her collaborators on the British Social Attitudes Survey,[6] statistician Sir Roger Jowell (as his third wife) in 1996; he died in 2011.