Rose Armour serves as Head of AUS Sustainability at American University of Sharjah. Rose has led AUS Sustainability in addressing all aspects of sustainability on campus, including community engagement, operational efficiencies, sustainability focused research, and promoting sustainability within the classroom.
Prior to joining AUS, Rose worked in Washington D.C., with the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), an Obama initiative providing grant funding to enable social innovation across America. SIF and its private-sector partners invested over a billion dollars in community programs. Additionally, Rose has worked with the Peace Corps as the Director of Programming and Training in Fiji and as a Program Officer for Small Enterprise Development in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Rose began her career working with rural women’s associations in Morocco. Rose holds a Master of Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Resource Management from the University of Texas at Austin.