Shannon O’Neil

United States |  Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

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Shannon O’Neil is vice president of studies and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on trade, globalization, industrial policy, and the Americas, and has taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities.

O’Neil has lived and worked in Mexico and Argentina, where her career began in emerging markets finance before turning to policy. She is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and an author of two books: Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead, on U.S. relations with Mexico, and her latest, The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter.

O’Neil joined the Dialogue as a Member in 2018.


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