Rose Geier Grant

Biography: Rose, a licensed architect, is president of Rose Grant Architectural Services, Inc. For over 20 years she worked for State Farm in its Technology Research and Innovation Laboratory researching the performance attributes of buildings exposed to natural hazards. Field evaluations included responding to hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, and hailstorms. Rose was State Farm’s designated industry liaison to the building research and construction community including the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety. In 2018 she served on a team of experts that developed the FEMA P-2055 Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluation Guide. As an architect, having earned the insurance industry Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation, she is able to identify architectural design and resilience features that address the insurance industry’s emerging performance concerns. Rose provided input to numerous national committees, having served on the American Institute of Architects’ Blue-Ribbon Panel for Codes and Standards, the National Institute of Building Science’s Multihazard Mitigation Council and the NIBS Council on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Community Resilience Panel. She served as chair of the AIA Disaster Assistance Committee and co-chair of the AIA’s Resilience and Adaptation Advisory Group.