Jonathan F.P. Rose is the Founder and President of the Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm. The firm is a leading national developer of green affordable and mixed income communities and is implementing affordable housing investment funds to preserve and enhance affordable housing. Mr. Rose is a thought leader in a wide range of urban issues, and the development of communities of opportunity. He has received MIT’s Visionary Leadership Award, The Urban Land Institute’s global award for Excellence and many other awards for his work. Mr. 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. 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 graduated from Yale 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.