Major General Michael Simon Hindmarsh AO, DSC, CSC (born 1956) is an Australian-Emirati Major General who is the current president of Zayed Military University (ZMU) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
He also heads the UAE Armed Forces Modernization Program and is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustee for the Rabdan Academy.
[9] Hindmarsh assumed command of Australian Forces in the Middle East Area of Operations in an official ceremony on 1 March 2008; he succeeded Major General Mark Evans in this position.
[11][12] Hindmarsh was invited by Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to help reorganize the Emirati military.
[13] On 8 February 2016 an ABC News report questioned the extent of Hindmarsh's knowledge of civilian deaths allegedly caused during the operation of UAE forces in Yemen, as a result of his ongoing employment as a security advisor to the government.
Hindmarsh is a patron of The Grub Club, the organisation set up in memory of Sergeant Matthew Locke.