Dr. Molly O’Neal is a former Foreign Service Officer whose career was devoted to the relations of the U.S. with Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. Her doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) embraced international political economy, American foreign policy, and European and Eurasian studies, as well as field research in several regions of Russia. She has lectured and published on these subjects since 2010, and worked most recently as a Fulbright professor at the Technical University of Dresden, a visiting researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, and Fulbright Scholar at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. A graduate of UT Austin and native Texan, she has taught international relations, American foreign policy and international political economy at Baylor University, the University of Texas at Austin, and American University. She is a non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington, contributing analyses on European politics and has been active in Austin’s UN Association Chapter as well as on the Austin-Limerick friendship city project. She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and speaks French, Russian and German.