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Shannon O’Neil
Senior Vice President & Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations | Author of The Globalization Myth | Global Trade, Supply Chains & Latin America Expert
As globalization splinters into regional blocs, few read the new map of world trade as clearly as Shannon O'Neil. Senior vice president at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Globalization Myth, she is a leading authority on supply chains, nearshoring, and Latin American trade. O'Neil gives executives a practical framework for tariffs, geopolitical risk, and the shift to regional production, turning uncertainty into strategic advantage.
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Shannon O’Neil biography
Shannon K. O’Neil is one of the world’s foremost authorities on global trade, supply chains, and the future of globalization. As senior vice president, director of studies, and the Maurice R. Greenberg chair at the Council on Foreign Relations, she leads the work of more than seventy fellows across the David Rockefeller Studies Program and oversees CFR’s fourteen fellowship programs, shaping research that informs decision-makers in government and business alike.
Global affairs speaker Shannon O’Neil has reshaped how leaders think about where and how the world makes things. Her book The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter (Yale University Press) challenges the assumption that supply chains are truly global, showing instead how production has clustered into three powerful regional hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, and what that means for U.S. competitiveness. Her earlier work, Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead (Oxford University Press), traces three decades of Mexican transformation and why it matters north of the border.
A columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and a frequent voice on national television and radio, O’Neil has testified before Congress on U.S.-Mexico relations, immigration, and corruption, and her commentary appears regularly in outlets such as Foreign Affairs and Americas Quarterly.
From Wall Street to the World’s Top Foreign-Policy Institution
O’Neil’s expertise is grounded in deep on-the-ground experience and rigorous scholarship. She has lived and worked in Mexico and Argentina, served as a Fulbright scholar, and taught Latin American politics at Columbia University. Before turning to policy, she worked in emerging-markets finance as an equity analyst at Indosuez Capital and Credit Lyonnais Securities. She holds a BA and an MA in international relations from Yale University and a PhD in government from Harvard, and today chairs the board of directors of the Tinker Foundation.
As a speaker, Shannon O’Neil gives audiences a clear-eyed map of a fragmenting global economy, translating tariffs, nearshoring, and geopolitical risk into practical guidance for companies and investors. She helps senior leaders understand where supply chains are heading, how regionalization is rewriting the rules of trade, and what it all means for strategy and growth. Authoritative, current, and refreshingly direct, she equips executives to make confident decisions in an era of profound economic uncertainty.
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Shannon O’Neil Keynote Topics
Drawing on her acclaimed book, Shannon O'Neil dismantles the assumption that supply chains are truly global. She reveals how production has concentrated into three regional powerhouses across North America, Europe, and Asia, and explains what this regional reality means for competitiveness, resilience, and growth. Audiences leave understanding where the global economy is actually headed and how to position their organizations within it.
From pandemic shocks to tariffs and geopolitical rivalry, the rules of global production have changed. O'Neil unpacks how companies can rethink sourcing, manage risk, and capitalize on the shift toward regional supply networks. She offers a practical lens for executives weighing where to manufacture, invest, and grow as resilience becomes as important as efficiency.
As firms look to bring production closer to home, Mexico and the wider Americas have become central to the next chapter of global trade. O'Neil examines the opportunities and obstacles of nearshoring, the future of the USMCA, and what deeper regional integration means for U.S., Mexican, and Latin American business. She gives leaders a clear-eyed view of where the most durable growth will come from.
Few experts know Latin America as intimately as Shannon O'Neil, who has lived and worked across the region for decades. She analyzes the political and economic forces reshaping the Americas, from democracy and corruption to trade and investment, and translates them into actionable intelligence for companies and investors operating in or expanding into the region.
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FAQs on Booking Shannon O’Neil
Why Shannon O'Neil?
Booking Shannon O'Neil gives your audience direct access to one of the world's clearest thinkers on global trade and supply chains at a moment when both are being rewritten. As senior vice president and Maurice R. Greenberg chair at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Globalization Myth, she combines top-tier academic authority with the ability to make complex geopolitics useful for executives. She helps leaders understand tariffs, nearshoring, and regional supply networks, then turn that insight into strategy. Sharp, credible, and refreshingly plainspoken, she is a standout choice for finance, manufacturing, and policy audiences. Aurum Speakers Bureau can help you book Shannon O'Neil for your next event.
What is The Globalization Myth about?
In The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter (Yale University Press, 2022), Shannon O'Neil challenges the common belief that supply chains are truly global. She shows that manufacturing and trade have actually clustered into three powerful regional hubs centered on North America, Europe, and Asia, and argues that the United States has underinvested in its own neighborhood. The book explains why regionalization, not globalization, increasingly defines how the world makes and moves goods.
What is Shannon O'Neil's role at the Council on Foreign Relations?
Shannon O'Neil is senior vice president, director of studies, and the Maurice R. Greenberg chair at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a leading nonpartisan foreign-policy think tank. In that role she directs the research of more than seventy fellows in the David Rockefeller Studies Program and oversees CFR's fourteen fellowship programs, guiding the institution's scholarship across global economics and international affairs.
What topics does global trade speaker Shannon O'Neil cover?
Shannon O'Neil speaks on global trade, supply chains, nearshoring, industrial policy, U.S.-Mexico relations, and the future of Latin America. Her keynotes help audiences make sense of tariffs, geopolitical risk, and the shift toward regional production, with clear takeaways for corporate strategy and investment. To book global trade speaker Shannon O'Neil for your conference or corporate event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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