Alex O'Neill

Alex O’Neill is a national security researcher who studies emerging technology, cyber threats, and illicit finance. He previously worked at the Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom and Korea Project, where he co-founded and led for three years the North Korea Cyber Working Group. Alex is the author of “Upholding North Korea Sanctions in the Age of Decentralised Finance” (Royal United Services Institute) and “Cybercriminal Statecraft: North Korean Hackers’ Ties to the Global Underground” (Belfer Center). He received an MSc in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA with distinction in History from Yale University.