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Michelle O'Neill
Michelle O'Neill
Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade
U.S. Department of Commerce
International Trade Administration
Michelle O'Neill has been serving as Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade since November 2005. In this capacity, she oversees the daily operations of the International Trade Administration (ITA), which has an annual budget of $456 million and more than 2,200 employees worldwide. She works side-by-side with the Under Secretary for International Trade to lead ITA, which participates in the development of U.S. trade policy; identifies and resolves market access and compliance issues; promotes American competitiveness and the strength of U.S. companies in the global economy; administers U.S. trade laws; and undertakes a range of trade promotion and trade advocacy efforts.
Before rejoining the ITA leadership team in 2005, O'Neill served as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology. Beginning in July 2004, O'Neill served as the chief operating officer of the Technology Administration, which includes the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Over the course of her 20+ year ITA career, O'Neill has served in every major operating unit of the organization, including Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Technology Industries where she established the U.S. Government's first Office of Electronic Commerce, Commercial Attaché to the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for International Trade, and Import Specialist in ITA’s Office of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations. O'Neill began her federal government career as a Presidential Management Intern in 1987.
O'Neill received her B.A. degree from Sweet Briar College and her M.A. from the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
O'Neill has been awarded a series of honors for her accomplishments. Most recently, she was named the 2010 “Outstanding Woman of the Year in International Trade” by the Association of Women in International Trade and was publicly recognized by Senator Kaufman as one our Nation’s great Federal employees. In 2011, she was recognized for her outstanding leadership and management in public service and was inducted as a Fellow at the National Academy for Public Administration.
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