Robert C. Lieberman (born September 26, 1964) is an American political scientist and the former provost of the Johns Hopkins University.

[3] He was instrumental in recruiting leading faculty to SIPA, restructuring the curriculum, and convening an international conference on the future of global public policy education.

[4] In 2013, he was named the 14th provost of Johns Hopkins University, concurrently joining the faculty of the department of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences on July 1, 2013.

[7][8] In August 2016 he stepped down as provost and was appointed Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science.

His wife is Lauren Osborne, and their children include a son Benjamin and twins, Martha and Aaron.