Sandra Peart
University of Richmond
Dr. Sandra J. Peart became the fourth dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies in August 2007. In August 2018, she was appointed to the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Leadership Studies. She became president of the Jepson Scholars Foundation in 2019. She is immediate past president of the International Adam Smith Society and a past president of the History of Economics Society, where she began the Young Scholars Program. Since 2018, she has been a Reform Club member and a Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Fellow. In 2024, the History of Economics Society awarded her the Distinguished Fellow Prize for her lifetime contributions to the study of the history of economics.