Maria Anguiano

As a first-generation college graduate, Maria Anguiano has dedicated her career to improving access to education for all learners. Currently she serves as the Executive Vice President of Arizona State University’s Learning Enterprise - a premier lifelong learning global education brand. The ASU Learning Enterprise serves learners of all ages and backgrounds to inspire curiosity, wonder and hope, in alignment with ASU's charter and goals of advancing excellence in education, broadening access, and having a meaningful societal impact in a rapidly evolving, technology-fueled world.

Prior to this work, Ms. Anguiano was Vice Chancellor of Planning & Budget at UC Riverside where she managed an $800 million budget and oversaw campus-wide strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, institutional research, and capital asset strategies. During her years at UC Riverside, she most notably led the redesign of the campus budget model, successfully negotiated the campus’ first design-build contract for a major research facility, guided a Physical Master Plan Study, and initiated their organizational excellence efforts. Most importantly, she led groundbreaking work on enhancing cost transparency within higher education. She has also spent time at the University of California Office of the President, working on the system’s most pressing financial and strategic initiatives.