Michael Stephen Hoza (born 1957[1] in Goldsboro, North Carolina) is an American diplomat.

After joining the State Department in 1985, Hoza was first posted to the U.S. embassy in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire as a Regional Budget and Fiscal Officer.

He remained in the post for three years before taking a similar job in Kathmandu, Nepal.

In 2002, Hoza was made the Human Resources Officer at the U.S. embassy in Paris, France and in 2004 he became the Management Counselor in Madrid, Spain.

[7] He stayed in Madrid until 2007 when he moved to be the Management Counselor and Acting Deputy Chief of Mission in Nairobi, Kenya.