Martin David Uden (born 28 February 1955) is a former senior British diplomat, specialising in Korea.

As Head of Post, he was firstly British Consul-General in San Francisco, and then Ambassador to South Korea.

During the London Olympics, he was Managing Director of the British Business Embassy at UKTI[2] and then took leave from the FCO to be the co-ordinator of the Panel of Experts at the United Nations which deals with North Korea regarding the sanctions against that country established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874.

He worked for HSBC in Hong Kong from 2015 to 2017 and subsequently took on part-time roles in the UK, including Chairman of the British Korean Society (2018-24),[5] International Adviser to QMUL (from 2018),[6] Member of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives (from 2019)[7] and Trustee (later vice-Chair) of the United Society Partners in the Gospel (from 2018).

He is engaged in compiling biographies and collecting photographs of the over 800 British servicemen buried in the UN Memorial Cemetery in Korea in Busan.