Jean M. Ross

Jean M. Ross is the founding Executive Director of the California Budget Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established in 1994 to promote a better understanding of state fiscal and economic policy issues and their impact on low and middle income Californians. Her prior professional experience includes serving as Principal Consultant to the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee; Senior Consultant to the Assembly Human Services where she staffed the California Legislature's Joint Select Committee on the Changing Family; and Assistant Research Director of the Service Employees International Union in Washington, DC, where she was responsible for coordinating the union's research on tax, budget, and employment policy issues. Ms. Ross serves on the Executive Committee of the California Governance Consensus Project, the Board of the Washington, DC-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, and the Advisory Committee of California's Franchise Tax Board. Ms. Ross is a frequent speaker on tax and budget policy issues and has published numerous articles on fiscal and economic policy issues.

Ms. Ross graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz and has a master's degree in City and Regional Planning with a concentration in Regional Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Ms. Ross was selected as a Senior Fellow of the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research in 2000-01.