José Alberto Bustamante Belaúnde (September 12, 1950 in Arequipa – February 7, 2008 in Lima) was a Peruvian politician.

Specialized in Administrative Law, he obtained a Master's Degree in Legal Institutions from the University of Wisconsin (United States).

Between 1972 and 1977 he worked at the Center for Development Studies and Promotion (DESCO) and between 1984 and 1993 as Director of Research at the Instituto Libertad y Democracia (ILD) together with Ernesto Mosqueira and Hernando de Soto.

He was a lawyer for the Ministry of Transport and Communications and OSIPTEL and a consultant for the Commission for the formalization of Informal Property (COFOPRI).

Consultant to the Peruvian government, he participated in the High Level Commission that heard the cases against Peru before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, was part of the team that sustained abroad the Peruvian decision to withdraw from the contentious jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human rights.