Los Angeles Board of Advisors

Alfred E. Osborne, Jr.
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Alfred E. Osborne, Jr. is Senior Associate Dean in the UCLA Anderson School of Management responsible for development, alumni relations, placement and career initiatives and executive education. Osborne is also the founder and faculty director of the highly acclaimed Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and an Associate Professor of Global Economics and Management in the UCLA Anderson School. The Price Center serves to organize all faculty research and student activities and curricula related to the study of entrepreneurship and new business development in the UCLA Anderson School. He also serves as faculty director of the Head Start/Johnson & Johnson Management Fellows Program conducted at UCLA and has led the development of several management training programs in the early childhood education field.

Dr. Osborne was educated at Stanford University where he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering, an MBA in Finance, an MA in Economics and a Ph.D. in Business Economics. His research and teaching career include various administrative duties at UCLA as well as two years at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. while an Economic Fellow at Brookings Institution. Current research interests include capital market liquidity, Rule 144, corporate governance and the role of the board of directors .

Besides his responsibilities at UCLA, Osborne is currently a director of Nordstrom, Inc., EMAK Worldwide, and K2, Inc., and has served on other corporate boards including the Times Mirror Company, US Filter Corporation, Greyhound Lines, Inc., and First Interstate Bank of California, among others. He is a trustee of the WM Group of Funds, a director of First Pacific Advisors, and a governor of the Investment Company Institute. He is a director of the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation, Los Angeles Universal Preschool and a trustee for Harvard-Westlake School. Dr. Osborne has also served as a member of the board of the Los Angeles Community Development Bank, as a commissioner of the Community Redevelopment Agency, as a member of Governor Pete Wilson's Council of Economic Advisors for California, among numerous other public special appointments.

He is also the first recipient of the Richard J. Riordan Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award and is a recipient of the 3rd annual BridgeGate 20 Awards, which recognize contributions to the high technology community in Southern California. In 2004, the faculty of the UCLA Anderson School presented him with the 2004 La Force Award for exemplary service and leadership to the Anderson community.