Christian Osmeña

Christian Osmeña is vice president for enterprise planning at Arizona State University, where he guides plans that advance the ASU Public Enterprise. He is also a professor of practice at ASU.

Before joining ASU, he was a vice chancellor for the California Community Colleges. Earlier, he worked as an analyst and then principal analyst at the California Department of Finance. He also served in the Office of the Governor of California as the assistant to the Governor’s chief of staff and as a deputy cabinet secretary.

Osmeña is a member of the Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board and the City of Phoenix Audit Committee. He was a member of the board of directors of the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and a director of the Filipino Young Leaders Program. He supported the Bipartisan Policy Center's Commission on the American Workforce as a member of the Postsecondary Pathways Working Group.

He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. In 2025, the Phoenix Business Journal recognized him as one of the region's "40 Under 40" top executives.

Osmeña earned a doctorate in education from the University of California, Davis, a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a student at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.