Margaret Myers is a lecturer on China-Latin America relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS, senior advisor to the Inter-American Dialogue and United States Institute of Peace, global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and adjunct researcher with Chile's Millennium Nucleus on the Impacts of China in Latin America and the Caribbean. Myers publishes extensively on China-Latin America relations, including The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations and The Changing Currents of Trans-Pacific Integration: China, the TPP, and Beyond, her co-edited volumes with Dr. Carol Wise and Dr. Adrian Hearn, respectively.

Myers has testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Senate Finance and Foreign Relations Committees, and the U.S.-China Security and Economic Commission on the China's global engagement. She formerly worked as the director of the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue; a Latin America analyst and China analyst for the US Department of Defense; a senior China analyst for Science Applications International Corporation; a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. Myers was a Council on Foreign Relations term member. She was also the recipient of a Freeman fellowship for China studies, a Fulbright Specialist grant to research China-Colombia relations in Bogotá, and a Woodrow Wilson Center fellowship to write a forthcoming book on China-Latin America relations.