Ranabir Samaddar is an Indian political scientist.

He holds the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group.

He was a PRIO Global Fellow from 2014–2017.

[4] Between 1977 and 1980, he served as a school teacher at the Kishore Bharati Dum Dum School, 24 Paraganas (West Bengal).

He is the founder-editor of the journal, Refugee Watch.