Martin Palouš (born 14 October 1950 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is the ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Czech Republic.

Palouš has a Doctorate of Natural Sciences degree in chemistry from Charles University in Prague.

Currently, he just finished completing his doctoral thesis in 2010 in international law at Masaryk University in Brno.

Palouš has also had an active academic career, holding a number of teaching positions, and also lectured at Northwestern University in the United States from 1993 to 1994.

Palouš is a member of Prague Society for International Cooperation, a respected NGO whose main goals are networking and the development of a new generation of responsible, well-informed leaders and thinkers.