Jürgen Schulz (born 1964^[1]) is a German diplomat and ambassador. He served in several positions in the German Foreign service and has worked in the German representation to the NATO as well as to the United Nations.

He went to school in his native Gladbeck.^[2] After he enrolled into the Ruhr University in Bochum from where he graduated in economics. Following he entered the foreign service in 1991. He has been working in the German Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan between 1993 until 1996 and in Brussels, Belgium at the Political Department of the International Staff of the NATO from 1996 to 2001. Later he was assumed responsibilities at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin.^[2]

For the Foreign Office in the Federal Chancellery he first worked in the Western Balkans Division between 2001 and 2004 as well as in the Iraq Staff in 2004 before becoming Deputy Head of for the European Security and Defense Policy Unit from 2005 to 2008.^[2] From 2008 to 2013 Jürgen Schulz was a head of division in the Federal Chancellery. Between 2008 and 2010 the head of division for Central, Southeast and Eastern Europe as well as for the South Caucasus and Central Asia and from 2010 to 2013 the head of division for the USA, Canada, Turkey, western, southern and northern European countries as well as for security and disarmament policy.^[2] From 2013 to 2016 Jürgen Schulz served as the Deputy Political Director and Security Policy Officer at the Federal Foreign Office^[2] before between 2017 and 2020 he served in several positions in the United Nations in New York, acting as the Vice President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 2017.^[2]

Jürgen Schulz has married Sheila Stanton in 1996.^[2]