Ambassador Akin Fayomi (born 8 November 1955) is a Nigerian career diplomat who was the Minister/Head of Political Affairs at the High Commission of Nigeria, London from July 2004 to March 2007.

Later he was Ambassador and Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) to Liberia[1] from January 2010 to July 2011.

He obtained a certificate in "Negotiation and Mediation Skills" in March 2008 from the Legon Centre for International Affairs, University of Ghana.

He served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigerian embassies in Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Harare, Seoul, London, Monrovia and Paris.

[3] He is current Chairman of Nigeria's Inter-Ministerial Committee on Darfur (IMCD) since Oct. 2007 and was the Secretary of the Nigerian Delegation to the African Union Summits in[4] Accra, June/July 2007 and Addis Ababa, January/February 2008; Sharm-El Sheikh, June/July 2008 and to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGM),[5] in Limassol 1992; Abuja 2003; Valletta 2005; and Perth 2011.