Michael Arthur Raynor (born 1962) is an American Foreign Service Officer specializing in relations with Africa who has served as the United States ambassador to Senegal and the United States ambassador to Guinea-Bissau since 2022.

[3][4] Raynor served as United States Ambassador to Benin from 2012 to 2015 after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

[5] After returning from his post in Harare, Raynor was named deputy executive director of the Bureau of African Affairs in 2008.

On December 15, 2011, Raynor was nominated by President Barack Obama to become United States Ambassador to Benin.

[citation needed] In May 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Raynor to become United States ambassador to Ethiopia.

[15] Raynor is the recipient of the State Department’s Leamon R. Hunt Award for Management Excellence.