Sheila Jasanoff is a scholar specialising in Science and Technology Studies, particularly in the role of experts and the co-production of knowledge and social order. She is currently the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

Jasanoff was born on

She is married to Jay Jasanoff, and has two children, Maya Jasanoff, who is an associate professor in the Department of History at Harvard, Alan Jasanoff, is a neuroscientist at MIT.