Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez
Strategy, geopolitics, and innovation at the crossroads of high tech and low life
Specialties & Interests
Geopolitics and geostrategy
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Technology, society,
and conflict
ABOUT
Dr. Rodrigo Nieto is a geostrategist and defense futurist focused on the consequences of the accelerating pace of change in homeland security, defense, and policing environments. He is a research professor at the National Security Affairs Department and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. Nieto has a Ph.D. in Geopolitics from the French Institute of Geopolitics of the University of Paris. He holds a J.D. from the State University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
For more than 15 years, Dr. Nieto has taught hundreds of high-ranking law enforcement, military, and homeland security leaders how to create and execute strategies to transform their agencies to meet the requirements of rapidly changing environments and threat profiles. As an innovation expert and an academically trained geostrategist, he has built a reputation as an expert on future threats to national security and policing and how to confront them. He has performed field research in multiple territories, including the totality of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Dr. Nieto has multiple publications describing the adaptation capacities of global organized crime, terrorist organizations, the public policy challenges of innovation and intrapreneurship in government and homeland security, asymmetric warfare, and cybersecurity.
CHDS AFFILIATION
- CHDS Faculty member
- Recipient of the Lieutenant Commander David L. Williams Outstanding Professor Award, 2018
Nieto-Gómez, who often sounds more like a sci-fi author than an academic. He’s interested in high-tech and low-brow, reality and fiction. In one peer-reviewed academic paper on Homeland Security, he quotes both Plato and Isaac Asimov.
-Sara Rubin, Monterey Weekly