Vop Osili is President of the Indianapolis City-County Council, representing District 11, which covers a large portion of downtown Indianapolis and parts of the near west side, including the campus of IUPUI. Osili was elected President of City-County Council by a unanimous vote in 2018. He is currently Chairman of the Council’s Rules & Public Policy Committee and serves on the Parks and Recreation Committee.

Working with his fellow public servants on both sides of the aisle, President Osili is committed to addressing the important issues – equity, fair and affordable housing, homelessness, reentry, police/community engagement, inclusive urban development – impacting the daily lives of Indianapolis residents.

First elected to the Council in 2011, Osili has collaborated extensively with community groups, civic organizations and the business community on the expansion of work opportunities, skills-training and disadvantaged small business financing. He helped establish Indianapolis’ first city-funded microloan program targeting residents and businesses operating in neighborhoods with households well below area median income and continues to implement new initiatives to successfully reintegrate those formerly incarcerated.

Osili served as a member of the Indiana Fire and Building Services Commission and Chairman of one of the Indianapolis Boards of Zoning Appeals. He serves on a number of civic boards in the community, working at various times with organizations like the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, PACE, Downtown Indy, the Madam Walker Legacy Center and Accelerating Indiana Municipalities. In 2010 he was the Democratic candidate for Indiana Secretary of State.

As an architect Osili has led urban design and architecture projects in the U.S., Africa and the Middle East and is an associate with Woolpert, a global architectural, engineering and geospatial firm, working on architectural and strategic initiatives across the country. He also served as a missionary to Haiti and other developing countries.

Osili graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a bachelor's degree in architecture and earned a master's degree in architecture and urban design from Columbia University. He and his wife Una are the proud parents of two amazing children, Arinze and Tasia.