Frances Omori

Commander (Ret) Frances Omori, US Navy joined the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in May 2007.Her areas of specialty are national security plans, policy, strategy, intelligence operations, game and simulation design, and academic research.Her functional areas of expertise are counterterrorism, counterproliferation, WMD, and arms control.Her research focus includes organizational culture, conflict analysis and resolution and negotiations.
While on active duty, she was stationed at the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2000-2006 where she most recently was a professor of national security and intelligence at the Joint Military Intelligence College in Washington DC.She developed and taught the Gaming Conflict and Terrorism course in collaboration with the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
As a Senior Military Fellow at the National Defense University (NDU), Institute for National Strategic Studies, she designed, developed and directed strategic policy games for US policy makers.She also designed and directed complex crisis game simulations for diplomats and senior military officers from the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin and South America.She was the NDU representative to the Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific Region (CSCAP), an international working group focused on developing regional confidence building measures.As an international political military officer at the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, she served as a senior US negotiator in Geneva, Switzerland.During face-to-face negotiations with the Soviets, she was responsible for implementation and compliance with the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty.
She is the author Quiet Heroes: Navy Nurses of the Korean War and is the substantive editor of Strength Through Cooperation: Military Forces in the Asia Pacific Region which is a compilation of academic and technical research papers presented at the NDU Pacific Symposium in 1997.Commander (Ret) Omori is the first recipient of the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) Trail Blazer Award for achievement in the field of national security, strategy, and policy.She earned a bachelors degree in Education with a minor in Business and a masters degree in Communications at UNC. She received her PhD from George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in 2008.