O’Neill is chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. O’Neill is the creator of the acronym BRICs. Together with his colleagues, he has published much research about BRICs, which has become synonymous with the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as the growth opportunities of the future. He is a member of the boards of the Royal Economic Society in the UK, Bruegel and Itinera. He is a member of the UK-India Round Table and the UKIBC. O’Neill is chairman and one of the founding trustees of the London-based charity SHINE. He sits on the board of a number of other charities, primarily specializing in education.