Minxin Pei (Chinese: 裴敏欣; pinyin: Péi Mǐnxīn; born December 10, 1957) is a Chinese-American political scientist.

He is currently the Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College[2] and a non-resident senior fellow in the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

[3] He was formerly a senior associate in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

[4] He served as Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College from July 2009 to June 2019.

Pei has contributed to a number of newspapers and periodicals, including The New York Times,[5] Foreign Policy, The Diplomat,[6] Project Syndicate, Nikkei Asia, Fortune, and Foreign Affairs,[7] and is an opinion columnist of Bloomberg.