Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates, Inc., a New York-based 80-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.
Mr. Rose, who for a decade was a Director of U.S. Trust Corporation, now serves as a Director of over 20 Dreyfus-sponsored mutual funds and was a Trustee of Corporate Property Investors from 1972 to 1998. He Was appointed by President Clinton as Vice Chairman of the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S.-government-funded organization that for 10 years has stimulated free market business activity in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Mr. Rose founded (and is now Chairman Emeritus of) the highly-acclaimed Harlem Educational Activities Fund, whose inner-city students are flowing into the nation's leading high schools and colleges and whose junior high school chess teams have ranked first in the nation; and he is a founding Board member of FC Harlem/Harlem Youth Soccer.
Among his many awards for a broad range of governmental, philanthropic and cultural activities are the City of New York Mayor's Award of Honor for Arts and Culture, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award and the Abyssinian Development Corporation's Harlem Renaissance Award.
Recent new philanthropic initiatives include establishment of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership at the Urban Land Institute and a join Yale/Technion Rose Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism Program.