Anton Volodymyrovych Shekhovtsov (Ukrainian: Антон Володимирович Шеховцов; Russian: Антон Владимирович Шеховцов; born 1978) is a Ukrainian political scientist, academic and writer.

He returned to his alma mater to complete an aspirantura in Political Science between 2006 and 2009, and lectured there until 2010.

He then went on to complete a PhD in Slavonic and East European studies at University College London between 2013 and 2017.

2020 he founded with Andreas Umland in Vienna (Austria) the Centre for Democratic Integrity to "monitor and analyse attempts of authoritarian regimes based on illiberal value systems to wield malign influence in Europe".

[3] Currently he is associated researcher at the Research Center for the History of Transformation in Vienna[4] and visiting professor at the Department of International Relations of the Central European University in Vienna.