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Kevin O’Neil

Managing DirectorInnovation, The Rockefeller Foundation

Kevin O’Neil is the Managing Director, New Frontiers. He joined the Foundation in 2014. In this role, Kevin tests and scales potentially transformative new solutions for global problems through research, convenings, and catalytic grantmaking.

Authored Content

  • Feb 16 2023
    Perspective Developing Country Voices and the Global Climate Agenda: Unlocking Lessons for Action One of the most important messages from last year’s COP27 global climate summit was voiced by leaders from emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). They made it clear that time was a luxury their countries did not have. Climate change was affecting their people now, they said, and global action to respond to the issues […] Kevin O'Neil, Nicole Rasul
  • Jul 22 2021
    Perspective Co-developing Digital Public Infrastructure for an Equitable Recovery As Covid-19 spread across the world last year, its impacts were fast and society-wide, ravaging health and livelihoods alike. The question quickly became: How can our societies respond with equivalent speed, scale, and breadth? Digital systems played a key role in this response. Sri Lanka, for example, built and deployed a real-time Covid-19 screening, contact […] Kevin O'Neil