Professor of economics, Don Ross, was the first dean of a South African commerce faculty to be awarded an A-rating by the National Research Foundation. He was dean of UCT's Faculty of Commerce from 2010 to 2015. Ross's research unites economic methodology, experimental economics and econometrics, cognitive science and the philosophy of science. He is also programme director for methodology at the Centre for Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) at Georgia State University in Atlanta.