Robert N. Rose (born February 27, 1951) is an American Wall Street financier and cybersecurity expert.
Rose is a member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Advisory Council and chair of the Information and Communications Risk Reduction Subcommittee.[1][2] He was a Clinton Administration appointee to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.[3]
Rose obtained a BS from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, majoring in international economics.[2] During his studies at Georgetown, he was a member of the Delta Phi Epsilon Fraternity.[4] In 1995, Rose received his Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[2]
From 1995 to 2008, Rose was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, where he was Global Head of Sales and Marketing for PricingDirect and the Financial Analytics and Structured Transactions group.[5]
Rose has served in various appointed U.S. government advisory positions in the areas of national security, cyber, and homeland security. In 1995, Rose was one of the founding members of the U.S. Secret Service’s Electronic Crime Task Force (ECFT) in New York.[6][7] He was later appointed to the U.S. Department of State’s International Security Advisory Board (ISAB).[8]
Rose was invited by the Aspen Security Forum to speak on “Cyber Power and Cyber-Security.”[9][10] He also played a critical role in the 2012 establishment of the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.[11]
Rose has been a longtime Democratic Party fundraiser and activist.[12] He was a co-founder of the National Jewish Democratic Council in 1990,[13] and in 1992, he was appointed to Democratic National Convention Site Selection Committee and was a member of New York 1992 Convention Host Executive Committee.[14] In 2000, he was a member DNC National Convention Rules Committee. Rose was an Alternate Delegate for the 2004 Democratic National Convention held in Boston.[15] He also served as Finance Chairman of the Democratic Party of Connecticut in 1993.[16]