Gilles Paquet, CM MSRC (July 19, 1936 – January 18, 2019) was a Canadian economist, President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2003 to 2005.

He was professor emeritus at the School of Management and senior research fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa until his death at age 82.

He chaired the panel presenting the 2006 report on the National Capital Commission Mandate Review.

Paquet was active as a journalist on the radio and television network of Radio-Canada from the 1970s onwards, working as an editorial writer for some 5 years in the print media in the 1990s, and as commentator on national affairs on TVOntario from 1995 to 2006.

Beginning in 1994, he was editor in chief of www.optimumonline.ca, a journal of public sector management and governance with over 10,000 subscribers.