Omar Tabuni

Omar Tabuni is a government affairs lead at POGO. He joined the organization in 2024. Prior to joining POGO, he launched projects on accountability for atrocity crimes. He attended the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and Information School at the University of Washington.

Omar has worked closely with attorneys and nonprofits to manage high-impact human rights cases in U.S. federal courts on behalf of Libyan and Tunisian survivors and victims of human rights abuses and extrajudicial killing. Prominent cases he spearheaded were the filing of civil complaints in U.S. federal court against Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of a Russian mercenary group, and General Khalifa Haftar for alleged war crimes. Through his engagement with the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committees, Omar has pushed for legislation that seeks to hold individuals accountable who commit human rights violations and war crimes, violate the arms embargo in Libya, or threaten the peace, security, and stability of Libya, and that restores the nascent democracy in Tunisia, which has suffered from democratic backsliding.

In his time at POGO, Omar has worked on a wide range of issues in the Pentagon and national security space, where he has worked closely on reforms with the House Armed Services Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee on the National Defense Authorization Act. He has also been interviewed and quoted in a variety of media outlets, such as the Washington Post, NPR, and Rolling Stone.