Leadership
Omer Niazi is the President and CEO of the Council on International Law, Order, and Security. With over ten years of experience in both the public and private sectors, his work centers on governance, rule of law, and international security.
He has worked with the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation and US Department of State's Office of International Security and Non-proliferation on initiatives aimed at countering the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), with a specific focus on nuclear non-proliferation. Omer is a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a non-resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute and US Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) where his research focuses on United States foreign policy towards Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He also conducts research on security and political development of the South Caucasus region at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
He has formerly researched with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). He was also a Policy Fellow at the Fund for Constitutional Government and the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition.
Omer holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was also a Mason Public Policy Fellow. He holds a B.A. in Public Administration and also a Master’s in Management from the UNINETTUNO University. Omer’s views have been published by AEI, ISW, MEI, CIPE, the National Interest, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.