Shannon K. O’Neil
Latin America policy expert and author
Shannon K. O'Neil is an expert on Latin America and global trade at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She wrote Two Nations Indivisible, a book on Mexico and the United States.
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About Shannon K. O’Neil
Shannon K. O'Neil works at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an American think tank focused on foreign policy. Her expertise covers global trade, supply chains and Latin America, along with Mexico's ties to the US, corruption, democracy and immigration. Two Nations Indivisible, published in 2013, was her first book. It looks at how Mexico has changed politically, economically and socially over about three decades, and why that matters to the United States. She later wrote The Globalization Myth. O'Neil is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and has testified before Congress on Mexico and Latin America. She has spent time living and working in both Mexico and Argentina, has taught Latin American politics at Columbia University, and holds a PhD in government from Harvard University.