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Jonathan F.P. Rose

Jonathan F.P. Rose

Jonathan  F.P Rose's business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating more environmentally, socially and economically resilient cities. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary  real estate development, planning, and investment firm, which creates real estate and planning models to address the challenges of the 21st century.Jonathan has lead the firm's vision, program and growth, developing award winning new projects, investment funds and city plans to model solutions to the issues of housing, economic development and the environment.

The company's mission is to develop communities that enhance opportunity for all.The firm's work touches many aspects of community health; working with cities and not-for-profits to build affordable and mixed-income  housing, cultural, health and educational infrastructure, and advocates for neighborhoods to be enriched with parks and open space, mass transit, jobs and healthy food.

The firm's innovative development, planning, investment, and owners representation  work has won awards from a wide range of notable organizations including: the Urban Land Institute, the National Trust for Historic  Preservation, the Natural Resources Defense  Council, the American  Planning Association  and the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Rose frequently lectures on affordable housing, community  development, smart growth  and  the  environment.

Mr. Rose's book on how to create resilient cities, T11e Well Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Behavior Teach us About the Future ef Urban Life, was published by Harper Wave in  2016.

Mr. Rose frequently lectures at graduate schools of business, environment and architecture. In 2015, he held the Yale School of Architecture's Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Architectural Fellowship.

Mr. Rose has testified before U.S. Senate and House Committees on housing, infrastructure  and environmental issues, and served as an Advisor to the White House Office of Urban Affairs.

Mr. Rose is a Trustee of Enterprise Community Partners and the Brooklyn Academy  of Music. He is an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects and Honorary Trustee of the American Museum  of Natural History and Jazz at Lincoln  Center.

Mr. Rose chaired the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed the nation's first green transit plan, and was a commissioner on Governor Cuomo's NYS 2100 Commission, tasked with identifying strategies for the long-term resilience of New York State's infrastructure post-Hurricane Sandy.

Mr. Rose and his wife Diana Calthorpe Rose are the co-founders of the Garrison Institute and serve on its Board. The Institute connects inner transformation with outer solutions to relieve suffering in the fields of trauma, education and the environment.

Mr. Rose graduated fromYale University in 1974 with a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy, and received a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.