A woman with straight brown hair and glasses smiles at the camera, wearing a dark textured jacket, pearl drop earrings, and a beige top, with a dark blurred background.
A woman with straight brown hair and glasses smiles at the camera, wearing a dark textured jacket, pearl drop earrings, and a beige top, with a dark blurred background.

Ellen Taus

Trustee

Affiliations
  • Simons Foundation

Ellen Taus is a financial executive and served as the Rockefeller Foundation’s chief financial officer and treasurer from 2008 to 2018. In this capacity, she was responsible for the stewardship of the organization’s financial strategy. She oversaw the Rockefeller Foundation’s audit, tax, budgeting, insurance, cash management, compensation and benefits functions.

Before joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Taus was CFO of Oxford University Press USA, overseeing the publishing house’s business operations in the United States. From 1999 to 2003, she served as CFO of the Electronic Publishing Division of the New York Times Company, and before that was vice president and treasurer of the New York Times Company. Taus’ earlier experiences were as vice president for corporate finance for Macy’s and CFO for the American Museum of the Moving Image. She holds an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from Columbia University and earned a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University. She completed Stanford University’s Stanford Executive Program in 1999.