Carlos Lopes (born 1960) is a Bissau-Guinean development economist and civil servant.

He was executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa from September 2012 to October 2016,[1] and is a visiting fellow at the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford,[2] and a visiting professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance of the University of Cape Town.

[3] Lopes took a PhD in history from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, and has a research master's degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

[1] He has honorary doctorates from Hawassa University in Ethiopia and from the Universidade Cândido Mendes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[2] From 2012 to 2016 he was executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.