Zaid A. Zaid is the Head of U.S. Public Policy at Cloudflare, and was previously the Head of North America on Strategic Response Policy at Meta. He recently served on the Biden/Harris Transition on the Agency Review Teams for the U.S. Department of State, USAID, Peace Corps, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He has nearly 20 years experience in tech, policy, law, foreign affairs, national security, and international development. Zaid 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. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, he was a senior associate in the investigations and criminal litigation group at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr (WilmerHale) in Washington, D.C. Zaid joined WilmerHale after federal clerkships on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 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, an ICAP Fellow, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. He serves on the Board of Directors of iMMAP, the Board of Advisors of the School of Foreign Service, and the Board of Governors at Georgetown University. Zaid lives in Washington, D.C. with his husband Giles Herman and their three sons.
Zaid A. Zaid is the Head of U.S. Public Policy at Cloudflare, and was previously the Head of North America on Strategic Response Policy at Meta. He recently served on the Biden/Harris Transition on the Agency Review Teams for the U.S. Department of State, USAID, Peace Corps, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He has nearly 20 years experience in tech, policy, law, foreign affairs, national security, and international development. Zaid 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. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, he was a senior associate in the investigations and criminal litigation group at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr (WilmerHale) in Washington, D.C. Zaid joined WilmerHale after federal clerkships on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 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, an ICAP Fellow, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. He serves on the Board of Directors of iMMAP, the Board of Advisors of the School of Foreign Service, and the Board of Governors at Georgetown University. Zaid lives in Washington, D.C. with his husband Giles Herman and their three sons.
