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Michael O'Neill
Michael O'Neill is the Director of Global Safety and Security for Save the Children International. He previously held the position of Senior Director for Global Safety and Security at Save the Children U.S. since September 2002. Prior to taking up this position, he served as the Coordinator of Volunteer Safety and Overseas Security at the Peace Corps (1995-2002).

Michael served as a community health volunteer with Peace Corps in Sierra Leone from 1978-82. While working for GTZ in Sierra Leone (82-88), he supported hundreds of community development initiatives in Bo and Pujehun Districts. As Regional Relief Administrator with the Sierra Leone Red Cross (91-92), he frequently traveled throughout the Eastern Province of the country to assess the level of security and make recommendations for the safe delivery of relief supplies. In a later assignment with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in 1993, he was posted on the Ethiopia/Somalia border, where he negotiated with Somali clan leaders on a daily basis to secure access for and cooperation with Red Cross personnel and programs.

Michael earned a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from St. Louis University (1976) and a Master of Science in International Rural Development Planning from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada (1991). Michael and his wife, Millicent, met and married in Sierra Leone twenty-six years ago. They have two children, Owen, 25, and Sheila, 20.