The Rector of the College is Rev Fr Ross Jones SJ. Fr Jones grew up in the Jesuit parish of St Mary's North Sydney. He graduated with honours in biochemistry and began his teaching career at St Aloysius' College in 1974, taking science in the senior years. In his time at the College he coached basketball, athletics and debating, and held the rank of Major in the College Cadet Unit. During this period he completed a Master's degree in Education and a Diploma in Theology. After ten years, the last four of which as Year 11 Form Master, he left to join the Jesuit novitiate at Canisius College in Pymble.  At the completion of novitiate, he took vows in the Dalton Chapel at Saint Ignatius’ College.

Philosophy and theology followed for five years in Melbourne, during which time he was for one year the Junior Boarding Master at Xavier College. He tutored in medical physics at Newman College, Melbourne for a number of years. Fr Jones was ordained at the end of 1990 at St Mary’s.

The Province was then about to engage in a new school enterprise in the Parramatta Diocese and Fr Jones was appointed Foundation Principal of Loyola College in Mount Druitt, a co-educational senior high school. He was responsible for the building and development of the project and was Principal until 1997.

The Provincial of the day then appointed Fr Jones Socius to the Provincial, Assistant for Schools, and Australian Secretary to the Jesuit Education Conference of East Asia-Oceania. He has been particularly involved in the Jesuit school network throughout East Asia-Oceania. For many years, he has been a member of all the School Councils in the Province, serving on the Riverview Council from 1993 to 2003. Fr Jones was foundation Chair of the Loyola Institute, a body charged with maintaining the Ignatian ethos and culture of the Society's ministries, but especially the schools. He has a passionate interest in the history of Jesuit education and the Society's particular charism and ethos as manifested in the educational apostolate. He is a chaplain to the Filipino community in Sydney and Melbourne. Fr Jones completed the final phase of his Jesuit formation (Tertianship) in the Philippines in 2003-04.  These experiences led him to develop the Philippines Immersion Programme for students, Old Boys and parents, firstly at St Aloysius’ and now at Saint Ignatius’.

Fr Jones served as Rector of St Aloysius’ College from 2003 until 2010 and was then appointed Rector of Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview (Rector and Superior of the Jesuit Community), commencing second term 2011.