Terje Tvedt (born 24 August 1951) is a Norwegian academic, author and documentary film maker.

He has also written on the Norwegian modern history of ideas with an emphasis on dominant worldviews in the era of development aid.

His books have been translated into a number of languages, as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Serbian, Swedish, and Ukrainian.

Tvedt has written and presented a number of award-winning TV-documentaries shown all over the world.

He has received several awards for his research, such as the Research Council of Norway's Award for Excellence in Communication of Science, the Article of the Year – The Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize and the Fritt Ord Prize.