Professor Abdulaziz Y. Al-Saqqaf (24 October 1954 in Taiz[1] – 2 June 1999) was a Yemeni human-rights activist, economist, and journalist.

He won the lifetime Achievement Award of the 2006 Middle East Publishing Conference in recognition of his efforts in promoting freedom of the press in Yemen and in the region.

Despite appeals by Dr. Saqqaf's heirs to re-open an investigation into the crash due to indicators that it may have been a carefully coordinated assassination, the authorities in 1999 refused to do so, resulting in a withdrawal from the trial proceedings against the car driver.

Dr. Saqqaf earned his doctoral degree in 1979 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts.

Of his many publications was a two part series on Islamic Economic Systems which he introduced as a subject while he taught at Sana'a University College of Commerce.