Daniel Rose

Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates, Inc., a New York-based 87-year old real estate organization, has pursued a career involving a broad range of professional, civic and non-profit activities.  Professionally, he has developed such properties as the award-winning Pentagon City complex in Arlington, VA and the One Financial Center office tower in Boston, MA.  As an institutional consultant, his credits include the creation and implementation of the “housing for the performing arts” concept for New York’s Manhattan Plaza.

Winner of a number of national Cicero Speechwriting Awards, he has been awarded Honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters (Long Island University), Engineering (NYU/Polytechnic University), and in Science (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology); and he has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  A volume of his talks, Making A Living, Making A Life, was published in 2014.    Mr. Rose has  served as “Expert Advisor” to The Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as “Expert/Consultant” to the Commissioner of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and he has served on a number of New York State and City of New York panels and advisory boards on taxation, housing and economic development.

Mr. Rose was appointed by President Clinton as Vice Chairman of the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S.-government-funded organization that for 15 years stimulated free market business activity in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.  He is now a Director of the Baltic- American Freedom Foundation, its “legacy” philanthropic foundation.

A military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, he has pursued his interest in foreign affairs as an officer or member of the Foreign Policy Association, the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and he was a founding board member of the EastWest Institute.  From 2004 to 2006, he was a frequent participant by telephone on Forum, an English language political discussion TV program broadcast from Tehran, Iran. 

The educational institutions with which he has been most closely affiliated are the Horace Mann School (Board Chair) and Yale University (Associate