Omar is a conservation social scientist, whose research concerns how to make conservation practice more socially just. He explores how this can be done by simultaneously working with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and conservation workers. In his PhD, he studied the biodiversity conservation political landscape in Nepal, focusing on the barriers and challenges in including diverse voices and practices within organizational structures. Previously he has worked on topics such as human wildlife coexistence and the impacts of voluntary certified standards on environmental and social indicators in palm oil landscapes. Taking a feminist political ecology approach, he centers issues trust, power and justice with a desire to forwarding post-capitalist and decolonial forms of conservation.