Shannon O’Neil is the Douglas Dillon fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her expertise includes political and economic reform in Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latin American immigration to the United States. She recently directed CFR’s Independent Task Force on U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality. She is currently working on a book on Mexico, analyzing the political, economic, and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last two decades, and the significance of these changes for U.S.- Mexico relations.

In addition to her work at CFR, Dr. O’Neil has taught in the political science department at Columbia University, and she publishes LatIntelligence—www.latintelligence.com—a blog analyzing Latin American politics, economics, and public policies. She is a frequent commentator on major television and radio programs.

Prior to joining CFR, she was a justice, welfare, and economics fellow and an executive committee member and graduate associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico and Argentina. Prior to her academic work, Dr. O’Neil worked in the private sector as an equity analyst at Indosuez Capital Latin America and Credit Lyonnais Securities. She holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, an MA in International Relations from Yale University, and a BA from Yale University.