Peter Taksøe-Jensen (born in 1959 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish diplomat.
The Ambassador represents the government of Denmark in Japan and is responsible for the direction and work of the Embassy.
He was appointed to this position by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2008.
He worked in different areas in the ministry including the Legal Service, the Security Policy Department and the European Union Law Department and on various government commissions.
From 2016 to 2018, Taksøe-Jensen was chairman of a conciliation commission established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to resolve a long-running maritime border dispute between Australia and Timor-Leste.