Jan A. Kregel (born 19 April 1944) is an American post-Keynesian economist.

He is also one of the Senior Scholars at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

Until 2004, he was High Level Expert in International Finance and Macroeconomics in the New York Liaison Office of UNCTAD, being in essence its chief economist.

For many years, he held the Chair for Political Economy at the University of Bologna.

He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Economic Society in London and in 2000 he co-founded The Other Canon, a center and network for heterodox economics research, with main founder and executive chairman Erik Reinert.