Rodrigo Nieto Gomez

Dr. Rodrigo Nieto Gomez is a geostrategist and defense futurist specializing in homeland security, national security strategy, and the future of policing in rapidly evolving threat environments. He serves as a Research Professor at the National Security Affairs Department and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where he has been recognized as a top 5% performing faculty member and a two-time recipient of the prestigious LCDR David L. Williams Outstanding Professor Award. He is also a faculty member of Singularity University, a certified facilitator and instructor for California's Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Command College, and a former instructor at the Executive Academy of the Emergency Management Institute. Dr. Nieto Gomez holds a Ph.D. in Geopolitics from the French Institute of Geopolitics at the University of Paris and a J.D. from the State University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. For over a decade, he has trained hundreds of senior law enforcement, military, and homeland security leaders in strategic transformation, innovation, and intrapreneurship in government. His research spans asymmetric warfare, cybersecurity, organized crime adaptation, and U.S. border security, including firsthand terrain research conducted along every mile of the U.S. perimeter. A prolific author and sought-after expert on future national security threats, Dr. Nieto Gomez brings a uniquely multidisciplinary perspective shaped by academic geopolitics, legal training, and operational security experience. He is a native Spanish speaker with bilingual proficiency in English, full professional proficiency in French, and intermediate knowledge of German, and holds a private pilot certificate.