Michael J. Adler is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to South Sudan since 2022.

[2] Adler is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Minister-Counselor.

Before joining the National Security Council, Adler served as the acting deputy assistant secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the State Department.

[2] His overseas assignments have included service as deputy chief of mission of the U.S. Embassies in Lebanon and Kuwait, as political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, and in Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, and Qatar.

[2] On January 26, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Adler to be the next United States Ambassador to South Sudan.