Dr. Osorio is a Faculty at Rutgers Business School. He conducts research on urban entrepreneurship, socioeconomic development process, and food security. He is a member of the Chancellor’s Commission on Diversity and Transformation at Rutgers Newark, Fellow at The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED), a Senior Fellow at Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies (Cornwall Center), and a member of the Rutgers Business School Public-Private Community Partnership Program (RBS-PCPP). He is a board member of several startups, community development corporations, and business organizations. He is also an advisor to several Business Chambers and the New Jersey Latin-American Consular Group (GLACO by its Spanish acronym).
Dr. Osorio received degrees from the University of Massachusetts (PhD and MBA) and Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico (BA). He is the author of several articles, edited books, book chapters, presentations, and reports. Before coming to Academia, Dr. Osorio worked as CFO for a USD$100,000,000 research and development project done in collaboration between the USA and Mexican Governments.