Jonathan F.P. Rose

Jonathan F.P. Rose’s business, public policy, teaching, research, writing, and not-for-profit work focuses on creating more environmentally, socially, and economically resilient cities.

In 1989, Rose founded and is president of Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a real estate development and investment firm that addresses the challenges of the poor distribution of opportunity through the development of affordable and mixed-income housing. Jonathan has led the firm’s vision, strategy, and growth, developing award-winning new projects, investment funds, and city plans that model solutions to address the issues of community development, opportunity, inequality, and the environment. The firm is one of the largest acquirers of affordable and mixed-income housing in the nation.

Rose received the Enterprise Community Partners, James W. Rouse Civic Medal of Honor in 2012, and the 2021 ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. In 2023, he was awarded The Order of the Beloved of the Thunder Dragon by His Majesty, The King of Bhutan.

Rose’s book on how to create resilient cities, The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life, was published by Harper Wave in 2016, and won the 2017 PROSE Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher.

Rose and his wife Diana Calthorpe Rose are the co-founders of the Garrison Institute. He serves as chair on its board and of the Bhutan Urban and Regional Planning Global Advisory Committee. He is a trustee of Enterprise Community Partners.

Rose graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a BA in psychology and philosophy, and received a master’s in regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980. Jonathan was appointed an executive in residence at the Saïd Business School 2021-2022, focusing on his work on regenerative business and regenerative economies.