Oona Paredes is an anthropologist and Southeast Asianist and faculty member in the department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California Los Angeles. She specializes in the ethnographic and archival study of the southern Philippines, in particular its indigenous non-Muslim minorities known collectively as the Lumad. To date she has worked primarily with the Higaunon Lumad of northern Mindanao, but also studies the experiences of comparable indigenous minority groups regionally and globally. At UCLA she teaches classes on Southeast Asia, Indigenous Peoples, and the Philippines.

Before joining UCLA in 2019, Oona was at the National University of Singapore, where she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, and also served as the Faculty Convenor for the Religious Studies Minor program, and as the Philippines country study group coordinator for the Asia Research Institute. She was also previously a Strom Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Department of History (2017), a Fellow of the American Association of University Women (2009-2010), and a Graduate Research Fellow of the U.S. National Science Foundation (1995-1999).