Roxanna Vigil is an international affairs fellow in national security, sponsored by Janine and J. Tomilson Hill. Her public service career spans fifteen years in the area of U.S. foreign and national security policy toward Latin America. Her research at CFR examines the work of international truth commissions as a tool to analyze the U.S. government’s role in a conflict, using Colombia’s Commission for Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition as a case study.
Most recently, Vigil served as a senior sanctions policy advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Before that, she served as the director for Andean affairs at the National Security Council, where she handled foreign policy and national security issues for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. At the Treasury, she also led the U.S. delegation to the Financial Action Task Force of Latin America. Before joining the Treasury, Vigil worked in various roles at the Department of State. Vigil holds a BA from the University of Michigan and a MA from Georgetown University.
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