Nicholas Dunster Hopton (born 8 October 1965) is a British diplomat who is the current Head of UK Embassy in Libya. Hopton was educated at St Peter's School, York and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989 and served in Paris, Rome and Rabat. He worked on the national security team at the Cabinet Office and was Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Europe. From 2013 to 2014 Hopton was a visiting academic at St Antony's College, Oxford.