Dr. Osman is currently the CEO of the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera), and a professor, at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.

He is also the Chairman of Telecom Egypt, a member of the National Council for Woman, the Vice Chairman of the Arab Union for Statisticians, and a Board Member of Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper.

Dr. Osman acted as the Chairman of the Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers' Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) from January 2005 to February 2011 when he was appointed as Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the post revolution caretaker government.

Dr. Osman provided short-term consultancy to several international organizations including UN ESCWA, UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, and WORLD BANK. He participated in the formulation of the Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Strategy, the national strategy for population and led the establishment of the Egypt Women Observatory.