Sherry Lansing is the founder and current chair of the Sherry Lansing Foundation, a philanthropic organization focusing on cancer research, health and education. Ms. Lansing was the chair of the Motion Picture Group of Paramount Pictures from 1992 to 2005, where she oversaw the release of more than 200 films including Academy Award® winners Forrest Gump, Braveheart, and highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic. A pioneering studio executive, Lansing is the first woman in the film industry to oversee all aspects of a studio’s motion picture production.

Among Lansing's initiatives within the Foundation is PrimeTime LAUSD, a partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District designed to engage retirees over 60 in improving the state of public education through targeted volunteerism. In June 2007, Lansing and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched EnCorps, a public-private partnership that recruits retirement-ready math and science professionals to become teachers.

Though she is best known for her long and successful career as a studio executive, Lansing also spent four years after college teaching high school English and math at public schools throughout the Los Angeles area. This experience, coupled with Lansing's long-held belief in the power of education to create lasting social change, has helped secure the place of education on the Foundation's slate of projects.

Lansing sits on the boards of Civic Ventures and Teach for America. Additionally, she is a Regent of the University of California , a member of Governor Schwarzenegger's Committee on Education Excellence, and a member of the California State Superintendent of Education's P-16 Advisory Council.

In December 2004, Lansing was appointed to the board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Lansing additionally serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Friends of Cancer Research, and on the boards of the Lasker Foundation and The American Association for Cancer Research. Lansing also lends her energy and talents to Stop Cancer, a non-profit philanthropic group she founded in partnership with Dr. Armand Hammer.

Lansing graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree from Northwestern University in 1966.