Hiroshi Suzuki

is a Japanese diplomat who has served as Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom since September 2024. He previously served as Ambassador of Japan to India and Bhutan from 2022 to 2024.

Career Hiroshi Suzuki was born in Kyoto on 5 June 1961. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo in March 1985 and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the following month. After joining, he was sent to the United States for language training and studied at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Suzuki was posted to the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and returned to Tokyo in 1990. His second overseas posting was at the Embassy of Japan in Rome in 1999, followed by a posting in Tehran in 2001. Returning to Japan in 2004, he worked as secretary to Chief Cabinet Secretaries Hiroyuki Hosoda and Shinzo Abe. He was subsequently described as an "unlikely social media star" in The Daily Telegraph after the video went viral on Twitter. The Telegraph wrote that he was "already on his way to becoming an adopted national treasure" and that "he has captivated Britons with his boundless enthusiasm". In April 2026 Suzuki uploaded a video celebrating Saint George's Day.