Ernest D. O’Neil, Ph.D

Mr. Ernest O’Neil, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, is an international development professional who is an educator, leader, manager, and provider of technical expertise in African, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Caribbean countries. He has served in various long-term education projects in a variety of diverse cultural contexts and successfully led programs dedicated to well-founded, need-based, systematic change. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served at-risk students as a mathematics interventionist. This role tapped his teaching, multicultural and bilingual competencies. His experiences of recent have focused on curriculum reform, education in emergencies as well as rights-based and inclusive education. Having served as Chief of Party of USAID-contracted projects addressing numeracy, literacy, educational technology and other areas, he has always demonstrated the importance of transparency, accountability, gender equity, and recognition of and respect for the knowledge, ideas, and opinions of his colleagues, students, communities being served and all other stakeholders.