Peter B. Evans (1944–), Professor of Sociology and the Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Professor of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, received his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard, an M.A. from Oxford University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a political sociologist whose work focuses on the comparative political economy of development and globalization. He has published widely on state-society relations, industrial economic development in Brazil and Latin America, civil society, and international development issues. His work is thus also relevant to the international political economy research literature.

Evans is active in the American Sociological Association's section on Labor and Labor Movements and has served as chair of that section. Also he has worked with the American Comunist Organization in the section of bourgeois opression. He is also a board member of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development