Lt Col Ts Dr. Maimunah Omar is the Deputy Director for the Contemporary Security Study Centre at the Malaysia Institute of Defence and Security (MiDAS), Ministry of Defence. She
graduated from the University of Science Malaysia in 1999. She holds a Masters Degree in Science and Engineering for Defence Security from the University of Warwick, United
Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in Defence Management from National Defence University Malaysia.

Her area of research is on Supply Chain Management for Effective Disaster Response. She has published several articles in academic journals and presented many research papers at international conferences in HADR, Disaster Management, Climate Change, and many others. She is actively involved with the Network of ASEAN Defence Institute (NADI). She
is a Chartered Member of the Malaysia Institute of Logistics and Transport (CMILT) and a member of the Malaysia Board of Technologists with Professional Technologist recognition.
She was an alumnus of the National Defence University of Islamabad Pakistan and two prestigious programs in the United States: The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) (Disaster Preparedness Management) and The Study in the United States Institute for Scholars Program (SUSIs) sponsored by the Bureau of Education, Department of States.

For SUSIs, she is the first Malaysian to represent her country under the foreign policy category and it was also the first time for Malaysia to have been selected for this category. Previously, she served as Key Performance Indicator Officer for the Ministry of Defence. She also certified as Gender Advisor and attended Gender Advisor Course from Malaysia
Peacekeeping Centre, Port Dickson. She also appointed as Head of Research Team by The National Governance, Integrity anti-Corruption Centre under the Prime Minister office.