Steve Currall is Associate Professor of Management and Psychology in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University and Director and Co-founder of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. He currently serves on the Executive Advisory Council of Interferometrics, Inc. a Houston-based medical device start-up firm and has served on the Executive Advisory Board of Southwest Diagnostic Centers, Ltd., a start-up company in Austin. Currall was listed among the Jones School's "Outstanding Faculty" in Business Week's 1997 Guide to Best Business Schools. He received the Jones School's Halliburton Foundation Award in 1995, and he was a finalist for Rice's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 1995 and 1999.

He has been quoted in Time magazine, Boston Herald, Houston Chronicle, Kansas City Star, Houston Business Journal , CIO Magazine, RedHerring.com and other media outlets. Currall's research on corporate governance, negotiation, and joint ventures has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Center for the Educational Quality of the Workforce, and his publications have appeared in numerous academic research journals. He earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. (cum laude) from Baylor University.