Claire Ross

Claire Ross is a Managing Director at Nuveen where she is one of the co-heads of the Active Equity Research department.  Claire is also responsible for analyzing and investing in the global Consumer Staples space.

Claire joined TIAA / Nuveen in 2014 and was appointed Associate Director of Equity Research in 2019. Prior to joining TIAA, Claire worked at Surveyor Capital, a division of Citadel where she also analyzed and invested in the consumer staples space on both the long and short side. Prior to Surveyor, Claire worked on the Proprietary trading desk at Bank of America where she was also responsible for investing on the long and short side in the consumer staples space. Claire started her investing career at Amber Capital a global hedge fund, where she also worked on long and short investments.

Claire started her career at Goldman Sachs in New York where she worked in the Investment Research Group covering the U.S Machinery sector. After two years, she transferred to the London office of Goldman Sachs and started analyzing the European Beverage space. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.B.A from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Claire grew up in Paris, France until she was ten, before moving to New York City.