[1] Ross Roderick Gittins was born 13 February 1948 in Newcastle, New South Wales where his family were living at New Lambton.
[3] Upon completion of his degree, he moved to Sydney, where he worked for a large firm of chartered accountants.
[7] Ross Gittins lectures to year 11 and 12 high school students around Australia, in order to share his knowledge and understanding of the Australian economy.
In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, being promulgated by His Excellency, the then Governor of New South Wales, General, the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC(Rtd) in the NSW Government Gazette February 2018;[12] and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
[13] In December 2018 the Australian National University awarded Gittins a Doctor of Letters honoris causa for his "exceptional contribution to journalism and economics in Australia".