Susanne Wasum-Rainer (born 31 July 1956) is a former German diplomat who has been serving as Germany's Ambassador to Israel between 2018 and 2022.

She earned a doctorate at the University of Passau in 1983 with a thesis to Der internationale Seegerichtshof im System der obligatorischen Streitbeilegungsverfahren der Seerechtskonvention (The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in the system of obligatory...), After two years of research at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, she started her training to be an officer in diplomatic service in 1986.

From 2009 to 2012, head of the Legal Department of the Foreign Office and advisor on international law to the federal government.

From 2012 until 2015, Wasum-Rainer served as German Ambassador to France; she was the first female person to hold the post and succeeded Reinhard Schäfers.

[3] Susanne Wasum-Rainer speaks besides her mother tongue, English, Italian and Hebrew.