Former Country Director of the British Council in Morocco. Rose has also been the Director of the Our Shared Europe project and the founding Director of 'Counterpoint', the British Council’s think-tank on cultural relations and public diplomacy. Rose has spoken and published widely on Cultural Relations, with publications including Trust, Mutuality and Cultural Relations (with Nick Wadham-Smith, 2004), British Public Diplomacy in an Age of Schisms (with Mark Leonard, 2005) and A Shared Past for A Shared Future (2009). He has worked with the British Council in Baghdad, Rome, Brussels and Ottawa.