Tony Browne (born 1946) is a retired diplomat of New Zealand.
Until 1973 Tony Browne was in the first group of Volunteer Service Abroad to go to the then New Hebrides.
In 1973 he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (New Zealand) and was employed en Beijing.
From 1982 to 1985 he was Official Secretary to Tokelau, based in Apia and helped in Vanuatu set up its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade.
In 1986 he was on the staff of the New Zealand Mission to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
From 1987 to 1990 he was the first High Commissioner to Vanuatu.
from 1990 to 1994 was Director of the Domestic and External Security Secretariat in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Till 2004 he had been Director of the North Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Director of the New Zealand Commerce and Industry Office in Taipei.
From 2004 to 2009 he was ambassador in Beijing.
From 2010 to his retirement in 2011 he was Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
In 2011 he was appointed as Chair of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre, and also assumed the position of Chair of the Victoria University of Wellington Confucius Institute.
