Andrea M. O’Neal is an appointee of the Biden-Harris Administration, serving as the Senior Advisor to the Administrator for Equity at the U.S. General Services Administration. In this first-ever position for the agency, O’Neal brings 20 years of experience championing the advancement of historically and socially marginalized communities with expertise in institutional equity, racial and economic justice, organizational behavior, and cultural change management. Andrea is a recognized thought leader with a career spanning global Wall Street, social impact, and advisory services for executive teams. In her position at GSA, Andrea leads the agency’s strategy and implementation of the Biden-Harris Administration’s equity-related policy priorities, with a portfolio focus on advancing equity through federal procurement, digital government, real estate development, federal workplaces, and execution of the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act investments. O’Neal serves as GSA’s senior designee to several governmentwide forums, including the White House Gender Policy Council, Domestic Policy Council, and Federal Chief Diversity Executive Officers Council.
In her previous professional experience as a capital markets investment banker, with four years stationed abroad structuring cross-border IPOs in Europe and Asia, Andrea developed a multicultural business acumen that she leverages to achieve exceptional stakeholder management and metrics-driven results. As a nonprofit leader and public sector official, Andrea is on the front lines of mission-critical work related to breaking down systemic barriers, closing disparities, fostering equitable delivery, and operationalizing high-performing culturally competent leadership practices.
Andrea has served as a research advisory committee member for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Equitable Futures Project, Brown University President’s Leadership Council, and Ambassadors Program for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC). Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and in several industry conferences. Andrea has roots in Tuskegee, AL and Brooklyn, NY and currently resides in Washington, D.C.