Ghassan Khatib (Arabic: غسان الخطيب) (born 1954) is a Palestinian politician.

[1] Khatib holds a PhD in Middle East politics from Durham University.

Khatib was Vice-President for community outreach in 2006–2009, and vice president for Advancement in 2012–2016 at Birzeit University.

He was a member of the Palestinian delegation for the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference in 1991 and the subsequent bilateral Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in Washington from 1991 to 1993.

[2] He was a member of the Joint Working Group on Israel-Palestine Relations at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.