Jan-Erik Lane (born 1946 in Göteborg) is a Swedish political scientist. He has taught politics and economics at many universities around the world. He is member of many editorial boards of political science journals. He has published some 300 books and articles. In 1996 (and 2009) he received the Humboldt Award by the Humboldt Stiftung. He has been full professor at the Umea university in Sweden and Oslo university in Norway. At the University of Geneva (1996-2008), he taught and examined alone around 800 students a year at all levels, from 1st year to PhD. He has been visiting professor at several universities in the US, Africa and Asia, receiving a Lady Davis professorship at the Hebrew University in 2006, as well as honorary medal from Kairo Universoty and the University of Qatar. After teaching regionalism and development at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, Lane was Mercator visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and teaches now at the Unıversity of Freiburg in Breisgau as visiting professor. He is a permanent resident in the Republic of Geneva.