in
Arlington County, Virginia in
Boston in
New York City in Boston Rose served as a military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the
U.S. Air Force during the
Korean War. Following his military service, he joined the family real estate development company, Rose Associates, Among other major projects, Daniel Rose led the development of
Pentagon City in
Arlington County, Virginia, adjacent to
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and
99 High Street and
One Financial Center adjacent to
South Station in
Downtown Boston By 2006, Rose Associates managed over 31,000 apartments in New York City, including
Stuyvesant Town and
Peter Cooper Village. He was a Director of 20
Dreyfus-sponsored mutual funds, served as a Director of
U.S. Trust Corporation, a Trustee of Corporate Property Investors from 1972 to 1998, as Expert Advisor to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as Expert/Consultant to the Commissioner of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and as a founding director of the New York Convention Center Development Corp. In his later years, Rose's reputation as a "legendary" business executive established him as a mentor
Philanthropy and public service Rose is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, a highly acclaimed the
Museum of the City of New York; the
Urban Land Institute; the
Committee for Economic Development; the
Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York; the New York Convention Center Development Corp; the Realty Foundation of New York; the Urban Land Foundation; the
Police Athletic League; the
Jewish Community Centers Association; the
Jewish Publication Society; and the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. an institution to which he has contributed endowed chairs and which honored him, together with his family, with the naming of Rose Hall; the establishment of the Daniel Rose Chair in Urban Economics at M.I.T. (the nation's first), the Rose Center for Public Leadership at the Urban Land Institute, the joint Yale/Technion Rose Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism Program, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at
Cornell Tech (founding Board Member), the Helping Africa Foundation (Chairman), and a major new initiative in Accra, Ghana to restore and rebuild the
W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture. With his late wife,
Joanna Semel Rose, Rose has contributed to hundreds of other charitable organizations addressing racial, religious, academic, and humanitarian issues. Among their philanthropic activities was providing the seed funding that enabled production of the award-winning educational television series
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by
Neil DeGrasse Tyson. A military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, Rose has pursued his interest in foreign affairs as an officer of the
Foreign Policy Association, the
Council on Foreign Relations and the
International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Writings An
essayist and
speechwriter, Rose is a six-time winner of the Cicero Speechwriting Award given annually by
Vital Speeches of the Day magazine. A 2015 collection of his speeches, "Making a Living, Making a Life" was named one of the Best Books of 2015 by
Kirkus Reviews, which described it as "A wise, well-honed collection of speeches that address vital issues with fresh, penetrating insight." Covering subjects as diverse as economics, inner city education, racial problems, real estate, food & wine, and housing, his writings occasioned
Fareed Zakaria's assessment that "Dan Rose has created a body of work that is philosophy at its most useful: how does one live a good life. was published in 2019, containing more recent essays and speeches as well as personal vignettes of his life. In addition to his own works, Rose contributed to "The Vintage Magazine Consumer Guide to Wine", and
Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s "America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans". ==Awards==