Michael Peter Pelletier is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros from 2019 to 2021.

[3] Pelletier, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, has served as an American diplomat since 1987.

[3] From 2016 to 2019, he was the Dean of the School of Professional and Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute.

[3] On August 13, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Pelletier to be the next ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros.

[5] In 2021 Pelletier was appointed as the Executive Director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the University of Houston.