Ashutosh Varshney (born 1957) is an Indian-born political scientist and academic.
He is currently the Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he also directs the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
He spent a year at Jawaharlal Nehru University before matriculating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Sc.M.
He served on the former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan’s Millennium Task Force on Poverty (2002-5).
He has also served as an adviser to the World Bank, UNDP and the Club of Madrid.