Michael B. Goldman is an American diplomat who has served as the chargé d'affaires ad interim to Turkey since September 1, 2024.

Goldman arrived in Canberra in March 2020 as Deputy Chief of Mission, after three years at the U.S Embassy in Suva, Fiji, where he served as Charge d'Affaires (2018–2019) with responsibility for relations with the nations of Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, Tuvalu.

He recently served in Washington as Deputy and Acting Director for China and Mongolia in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2015–2017).

[3] Goldman speaks Mandarin Chinese, and at one time or another has also been fluent in Nepali, Vietnamese, Russian, and Indonesian.

Prior to joining the State Department, Goldman worked as a dock worker on an oyster farm in Puget Sound and as an adjunct professor of political science at San Francisco State University.