Steve Currall is Dean and Professor in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. At the invitation of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Currall was a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group. He has served as a member of the boards of directors of the University of California Global Health Institute,, BioHouston, Leadership in Medicine, Inc., and the Ecosystem for Biophotonics Innovation at UC Davis. He has held a range of administrative and faculty positions. In addition to positions in schools of management, he has served in engineering schools as vice dean, department chair, and endowed chair holder; he has also held faculty appointments in a Department of Psychology and in a Department of Statistics.

Currall has conducted research and taught for over 20 years on organizational psychology topics such as: (1) modes of organizing interdisciplinary science and engineering research, (2) public trust and perceptions of risks/benefits of technological innovations, and (3) conflict, negotiation, and trust in inter-personal and inter-organizational relations. His research has been published in management, psychology, and science/engineering academic journals. He has been a grantee on $17,633,893 in external funding of which over 80% came from refereed research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). He has served on numerous academic journal editorial review boards. Currall has been quoted over 475 times in publications such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Economist (UK), Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television and the Nightly Business Report.

He was formerly Vice Dean and Professor of Management Science and Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at University College London (UCL). He was Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Entrepreneurship and Faculty Co-Director of the Institute of Technology at London Business School. At UCL, he was founding Chair of the Department of Management Science and Innovation. At Rice University, Currall was the William and Stephanie Sick Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Brown School of Engineering and tenured Associate Professor of Management, Psychology, and Statistics in the Jones Graduate School of Management. In 2003, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (as a Rotary International Scholar), and a B.A. (cum laude) from Baylor University.