Born on 23 October 1975 in the historic Kibokoni neighbourhood of Mombasa, Hassan Omar Hassan is a Kenyan lawyer, human rights advocate and politician. He attended Mombasa Primary School and later Lenana School before briefly training as a cadet at the Armed Forces Training College. Hassan studied law at Moi University, where he became a passionate student leader and served as chair of the Moi University Students Organization and the Council for University Students of East Africa. After university he joined human-rights advocacy through groups such as SUPKEM and MUHURI and in 2007 was appointed a commissioner of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. He rose to vice chairperson of the commission, led reforms on accountability and authored reports such as The Cry of Blood, work that earned him the Sergio Vieira de Mello Human Rights Award in 2011. Leaving the commission to enter politics, Omar was elected Senator for Mombasa County in 2013 under the Wiper Democratic Movement. In the Senate he served as vice chair of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments and sponsored the Preservation of Human Dignity and Enforcement of Economic and Social Rights Bill in 2015. He later became Secretary General of the Wiper party, established the Renaissance Centre to promote civic discourse and contested the Mombasa governor race in 2017. After the election he left Wiper, supported William Ruto in the 2022 presidential campaign and was elected to the East African Legislative Assembly in 2022. In August 2024 he was appointed Secretary General of the ruling United Democratic Alliance, a role he continues to hold while serving as an EALA MP and advocating for inclusive growth and social justice.