Ziad Haider is a Juris Doctor and Master in Public Policy candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center and Harvard Kennedy School. He was Foreign Policy Advisor to US Senator Christopher J. Dodd and Professional Staff on the House Committee on Homeland Security. During the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Campaigns, he served on the South Asia Advisory Teams of Senator John Kerry and then-Senator Barack Obama. He was a Research Analyst at the Henry L. Stimson Center’s South Asia Program, a Fulbright Scholar in Southeast Asia, and worked at Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Haider has published extensively on security and human rights issues including in the Asian Survey, Far Eastern Economic Review, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Yale Global Online Magazine, Daily Times (Lahore), and Indian Express (New Delhi). His latest report, "Mainstreaming Pakistan's Tribal Belt: A Human Rights and Security Imperative," was published by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School and is based on field research he conducted in Pakistan's frontier last summer on governance reforms in the tribal areas.

Haider received his Bachelor of Arts with distinction in Political Science from Yale College. He is fluent in Urdu and proficient in Mandarin and has lived in Pakistan, India, China, Malaysia, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.