Jan Maria Florent Wouters (born 14 July 1964) is a Belgian academic.

In 1996, he obtained a PhD in law at KU Leuven, with a doctoral thesis focused on the freedom of establishment of business enterprises within the European Union.

[2] He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), SciencesPo (Paris) and LUISS University (Rome), where he teaches on the law of EU external relations.

He also teaches in the Master of Laws in International Economic Law (IELPO) at the University of Barcelona and in the European Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA, EIUC, Venice).

He regularly advises international organizations and trains international officials, and is coordinator of a large-scale FP7 Programme FRAME, "Fostering Human Rights Among European (External and Internal) Policies" and of the InBev-Baillet Latour EU China Chair at KU Leuven.