Zaid Zaid is currently director and head of U.S. public policy at Cloudflare leading their public facing advocacy with the U.S. government, think tanks, and industry groups. He is an expert on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and tech policy, with public and private sector experience. Zaid has excelled in the tech sector, legal world, and diplomatic corp, building upon his previous experience in each chapter of his career.

At Meta, Zaid led Strategic Response Policy for North America, where he and his team focused on U.S. politics and elections, and responded to high-profile incidents around the world.

As a lawyer, Zaid served in the Obama Administration as special assistant to the President and associate White House counsel and served as the senior attorney advisor to the General Counsel at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

In private practice at WilmerHale, Zaid worked on internal investigations and had a very active pro bono practice, filing briefs on behalf of clients in numerous Courts of Appeal in the United States, working with clients in Egypt, and representing a Guantanamo Bay detainee.

As a political officer in the Foreign Service, Zaid served in Iraq as the liaison between the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council at the U.S. Embassy Baghdad where he worked closely with the U.S. Military and the Transitional Iraqi Government on negotiating and implementing the Transitional Administration Law.

Zaid studied Arabic at the Foreign Service Institute in Tunis and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman National Security Project Fellow, an ICAP Fellow, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and was recently elected to the American Law Institute. He is the Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Council of Global Equality, and serves on the Board of Directors of iMMAP and HALO U.S.A., the Board of Advisors of the School of Foreign Service, and the Board of Governors at Georgetown University.

Zaid holds degrees from Columbia Law School, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.