Sir David Bruce Omand GCB (born 15 April 1947) is a British former senior civil servant who served as the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) from 1996 to 1997.

Omand was educated at Glasgow Academy and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving an economics degree.

Omand was among those who decided that David Kelly should be pursued for talking to the media about the Government's dossier on Iraq's alleged WMD.

[5] Omand and Kevin Tebbit, then permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence, recommended to Jack Straw and Tony Blair that John Scarlett become the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).

[12] Omand is currently a visiting professor at King's College London and is a vice-president of the Royal United Services Institute.

[15] In October 2020, Omand participated in a TEDx conference in Lambeth, where he spoke about ideas from his book, How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence.