Mr. Zaid A. Zaid

Zaid A. Zaid is the Head of U.S. Public Policy at Cloudflare. He has nearly 20 years experience in tech, policy, law, foreign affairs, national security, and international development. Previously, Zaid was the Head of North America for Strategic Response Policy at Meta. He also served in the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel where he advised the President and his Administration on crisis response, congressional investigations, risk management, strategy, communications, and federal inter-agency coordination. Before the White House, he was the Senior Attorney-Advisor to the General Counsel at USAID, which he joined from private practice at WilmerHale after three federal clerkships.

Zaid graduated from Columbia Law School as an Editorial Board member of the Columbia Law Review and a Richard Paul Richman Fellow. Prior to law school, he was a political officer in the Foreign Service. He served at the United Nations, in Baghdad, Cairo, and Tunis. Zaid received his MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a BSFS from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he was a Pickering Fellow.

Zaid is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman National Security Project fellow, and an ICAP Fellow. He serves on the Board of Directors of iMMAP, the Advisory Committee for the Council for Global Equality, the Board of Governors at Georgetown University, and the Board of Advisors of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown.