Peter Lein Geschiere (born 1941) is a Dutch anthropologist, Africanist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

Then he held a professorship in Non-Western History at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1985-1988) and was a researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden (1986-1988).

At Leiden University Geschiere worked as Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Sub-Saharan Africa (1988-2002).

[3] Geschiere specialised on Cameroon and the comparative study of processes of change in Africa.

[4] In 2002 he won the Distinguished Africanist Award from the US-based African Studies Association.