Igor Lukšič (born 3 December 1961) is a Slovenian political scientist, politician and was president of the Slovenian Social Democrats (June 2012 – May 2014).

Between November 2008 and February 2012, he served as minister of education in the center-left government of Borut Pahor.

Lukšič was born in Novo Mesto in the People's Republic of Slovenia, then part of FPR Yugoslavia.

He started his academic career as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana in 1986 and obtained his PhD at the University of Ljubljana in 1993.

In 1999, he was named vice-dean and in 2001, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana.