Stephen A. Ross is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics at MIT and Chairman of Compensation Valuation, Inc.(CVI) and Principal and CIO of Ross Institutional Investors, LLC (RII). Εχει υπάρξει στο παρελθόν the Sterling Professor of Economics and Finance at Yale University και πρίν από την θέση αυτή υπήρξε professor of economics and finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.