Alain Paquet (born April 17, 1961) is a Quebec politician, professor and economist.

He was a Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Laval-des-Rapides and served as the province's Delegate Minister of Finance, from February 3, 2011, until his defeat in the 2012 Québec General Elections, to Leo Bureau-Blouin of the Parti Québécois.

Paquet went to the Université Laval and obtained a bachelor's degree in economics.

He has been a professor since 1988 in the Faculty of Economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

He was also a guest consultant for the Bank of Canada, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Department of Finance of Canada, the Department of Human Resources Development Canada, the Central Bank of Madagascar and the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research.