Michael Douglas Aron (born 22 March 1959) is a British diplomat who has been Ambassador to Kuwait, Iraq, Libya and Sudan, and Yemen.

Aron was educated at Exeter School, Leeds University and the Polytechnic of Central London.

[3] After the outbreak of the Libyan Civil War in 2014, Aron supervised the evacuation of British citizens from Tripoli on the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Enterprise.

He and his remaining staff then closed the embassy and left Libya to set up a temporary office in Tunis.

[6] Aron was married to Rachel (née Barker) who was also a diplomat, now retired after being British Ambassador to Belgium from 2007 to 2010.