Mitchell L. Moss is the Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and the Henry Hart Rice Professor Urban Policy and Planning at New York University 's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He served as Director of NYU's Taub Urban Research Center from 1987 to 2003 where he directed research projects for the National Science Foundation, Charles Revson Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce, New York State Economic Development Corporation, and leading private corporations. Professor Moss has been on the faculty of NYU since 1973 and served as Chairman of The Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts from 1981-83. He was voted "Best Teacher of the Year" by Wagner School students in 2002.

Moss's essays have been published in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, and The New Yor Observer. He has appeared on ABC's World News Tonight, The Today Show, Hardball, and the NBC Nightly News. In 2001, he served as an advisor to the mayoral campaign of Michael R. Bloomberg. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York, the Advisory Board of the Taubman Center at Harvard University and the Advisory Committee of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project. He has chaired the City of New York 's Neighborhood Business Awards Committee since 2003.

Professor Moss received his B.A. from Northwestern University where he was elected to DERU, the men's honorary society; M.A. from the University of Washington , and Ph.d from the University of Southern California,