The World Affairs Council of Orange County presents:

The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter

featuring

Dr. Shannon K. O’Neil

Shannon K. O’Neil is the vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She offers a powerful case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the last forty years.

A Zoom Webinar event

Date & Time:

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

1 pm PST

Location:

Zoom

Tickets:

Free for World Affairs Council members and students

$10 for non-members

For more information on her book, visit:

https://www.cfr.org/book/globalization-myth

Shannon O’Neil’s Twitter handle: @shannonkoneil

Thank you to our promotional sponsor, World Affairs Council of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky!

Thank you to our promotional sponsor, Global Minnesota!

Global Minnesota is also part of the World Affairs Council network, comprising of nearly 90 WACs!

Thank you to our promotional sponsor, Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall! 

Thank you to our promotional sponsor, Pacific Council on International Policy!

Speaker Bio:

Shannon K. O’Neil

Shannon K. O’Neil is vice president, deputy director of studies, and the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on global trade, supply chains, Mexico, Latin America, and democracy. Dr. O’Neil has lived and worked in Mexico and Argentina. She was a Fulbright scholar and a justice, welfare, and economics fellow at Harvard University, and has taught Latin American politics at Columbia University. Before turning to policy, Dr. O’Neil worked in the private sector as an equity analyst at Indosuez Capital and Credit Lyonnais Securities.
Dr. O’Neil is the author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter (Yale University Press, October 2022), which chronicles the rise of three main global manufacturing and supply chain hubs and what they mean for U.S. economic competitiveness. She also wrote Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead (Oxford University Press, 2013), which analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last three decades and why they matter for the United States. Dr. O’Neil is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and a frequent guest on national broadcast news and radio programs. She has often testified before Congress and regularly speaks at global academic, business, and policy conferences.
Dr. O’Neil is a member of the board of directors of the Tinker Foundation. She holds a PhD in government from Harvard University, an MA in international relations from Yale University, and a BA from Yale University.

Shannon’s Twitter Handle: @shannonkoneil

Moderator Bio:

Howard J. Shatz

Howard J. Shatz is a senior economist at the nonpartisan, nonprofit RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He specializes in international economics and economics and national security. His recent RAND research has included the U.S. role in the global economic order, economic issues related to Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and U.S.-China economic competition. From 2007 to 2008, he was on leave from RAND, serving as a senior economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Shatz has written journal articles, book chapters, and policy reports on trade and labor markets, exchange rates and economic performance, the geography of international investment, and trade barriers and low-income countries. Shatz has held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.