Christian Osmeña

Christian Osmeña is vice president for enterprise planning at Arizona State University, guiding the development and execution of plans that advance the ASU Public Enterprise. He is also a professor of practice in ASU's Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions and the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. Previously, Osmeña served in California state government for over a decade, including as vice chancellor for the California Community Colleges. Earlier, he was an analyst and principal analyst at the California Department of Finance, focusing on education, and served in the Office of the Governor of California as assistant to the chief of staff and as deputy cabinet secretary.Osmeña is a trustee and chair of California College, a member of the First Things First State Board, the City of Phoenix Audit Committee, and a director of the Filipino Young Leaders Program. He was on the board of the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.A delegate to the French-American Foundation’s Young Leaders Program, he has participated in the Millennium Fellowship, U.S.-Spain Council’s Young Leaders Program, Filipino Young Leaders Program, Flinn-Brown Fellowship, Pahara Fellowship, and California Education Policy Fellowship. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations.