Julia Rosen

Vice President of Global Academic Initiatives

Arizona State University

Julia Rosen is Vice President for Global Academic Initiatives at Arizona State University, where she leads a global service team responsible for advancing ASU’s enterprise-wide partnerships, including major collaborations with Cintana Education and the Mastercard Foundation. She also oversees Global Launch, which delivers language and cultural competency programs to international students, professionals, and learners worldwide.

Rosen has spent more than two decades at ASU shaping economic development, ed-tech innovation, and global partnerships. She previously served as associate vice provost for ASU Online and associate vice president for innovation and entrepreneurship, and has worked extensively with governments and public- and private-sector partners around the world to design and launch large-scale collaborations.

She co-founded the ASU+GSV Education Innovation Summit—recognized as a leading global convening for ed-tech—and led the development of SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, a major regional economic engine. Rosen holds graduate degrees from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.