Omer Niazi is a 2025 Millennium Leadership Intensive participant and the founder and president of the Council on International Law, Order, and Security. He is also a US State Department Black Sea fellow at the Middle East Institute, a policy fellow at the Fund for Constitutional Government, and a graduate researcher at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He has worked with the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation and the US Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament initiatives. His former affiliations include the American Enterprise Institute, the Institute for the Study of War, the Center for International Private Enterprise, and the Fund for Constitutional Government’s Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition. Niazi holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was also a Mason public policy fellow, and a master’s degree in management from UniNettuno University. His views have been published by the American Enterprise Institute, the Institute for the Study of War, the Middle East Institute, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the National Interest, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.