Kezia McKeague

Kezia McKeague is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. She is also a managing director at McLarty Associates in Washington, DC, where she advises multinational companies across sectors on Argentina, Cuba, and broader Latin American issues, as well as engagement with multilateral organizations globally. She brings twenty years of experience at the intersection of policy and business in Latin America, including several years living and studying in Buenos Aires.

Prior to joining McLarty Associates in 2016, McKeague served as director of government relations at the Washington, DC office of the Council of the Americas, where she advocated for corporate member interests across the region and convened senior-level dialogues between public- and private-sector leaders. Earlier in her career, she worked on the staff of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, coauthoring staff studies that helped shape debate in Washington on US policy toward Latin America.

McKeague is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the executive committee of the Cuba Study Group. She graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University as a Nancy S. Reynolds scholar, earning a bachelor of arts with honors in political science and Spanish. She holds a master of arts in international studies from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.