Dr. Ken Jones was appointed in 2005 as the Dean of the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. Dr. Jones has earned an international reputation for his expertise in business geomatics, location and spatial analyses, and retail real estate development.

Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. from York University. He served as the Eaton Chair in Retailing (1995-2005); the NSERC/SSHRC Chair in the Management of Technological Change in Retail (1996-2006); the Director of the Ontario Retail Sector Strategy Project; and Project Leader for the GEOIDE (Geomatics for Informed Decisions) Networks of Centres of Excellence, where he was responsible for coordinating the research activities of several universities. Dr. Jones served on both the Research Management Committee and Board of the GEOIDE NCE and currently is a Director of the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans.