Mikhail Minakov (Ukrainian: Михайло Анатолійович Мінаков; born on 6 October 1971, Leninsk, Volgograd Oblast, Russia/USSR) is a philosopher, political scholar and historian (researcher of the history of modernity and post-Soviet ideologies), Doctor of Philosophy.

[1] His studies focus on human experience, social knowledge, the phenomenon of ideology, political creativity, and the history of modernization.

He is also head of the Ukrainian Research Program at the Kennan Institute (since 2018), professor of philosophy and religious studies at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2008-2018,[1] chairman of the Kant Society in Ukraine (2013–18), editor-in-chief of the journal Ideology and policy.

In 1992, Minakov was accepted into Kyiv-Mohyla Academy where he studied philosophy, political science, sociology and comparative literature.

[4] His theoretical works and empirical research focus on the problems of ideology, political imagination, pluralistic ontology and human historicity.