Richard A. Boucher (born December 13, 1951) is an American diplomat who was deputy secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 2009 until 2013.

Prior to joining OECD, he was the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs, a position he assumed on February 21, 2006.

The Bureau of South Asian Affairs was expanded to include the nations of Central Asia shortly before his confirmation.

He led U.S. efforts as the U.S. senior official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) from July 1999 to April 2000.

Since joining the Foreign Service in 1977, Boucher received Mandarin training at the Foreign Service Institute's Chinese Language School in Taichung, Taiwan, before transferring to the Embassy chancery in Taipei in 1978[1] (the diplomatic ties between Taipei and Washington severed on the same year, thus ending the operation of embassy in 1979), He then served at the Consulate General in Guangzhou from 1979 to 1980.