Shkëlzen Maliqi (born 26 October 1947) is a Kosovar philosopher, art critic, political analyst and intellectual.

He was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo and served as its first president from 1991 to 1993.

Maliqi has published several books on art and politics in Albanian, English, Italian, Spanish, and Serbian.

From the beginning of the 1980s, he has been a regular contributor to the most important media outlets in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia.

Maliqi lives in Pristina and heads the "Gani Bobi" Institute for Social Studies.