Lieven Boeve [‘li:vən ‘bu:və] (born April 10, 1966) is a Belgian Catholic theologian, and is full professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Since 2012 he is also the chair of the Centre for Academic Teacher’s Training, KU Leuven.

On 1 August 2014 he became the Director General of the Flemish Secretary for Catholic Education (Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen), a position which he held for two five-year terms, until 2024.

Between 1998 and 2003, he also lectured at the Faculty of Theology of the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve.

[4] From 2005 until 2009 Boeve was the international chair of the European Society of Catholic Theology.