Alexander Nikolayevich Shokhin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Шо́хин; born 25 December 1951) is a Russian state, political and public figure and a Member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the party United Russia. Minister of Labour of the RSFSR (August 26, 1991 – November 10, 1991). On 20 January 1994 to 6 November 1994, Minister of the Russian economy, 23 March 1994 to 6 November 1994, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government.

In September 1998 he was appointed Deputy Premier of the Russian Government in the Cabinet of Yevgeny Primakov, but even before the official addition of deputy powers in October 1998, has resigned from this position.

In 1974 he graduated from M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in political economy. Doctor of Economics (1989), Professor (1991).

Since 1969 he has been a laboratory assistant at the MSU Faculty of Economics, then a scientific and technical employee of the Central Economic Mathematical Institute (CEMI) of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

1974-1979 — Research fellow at the Scientific Research Economic Institute under the USSR State Planning Committee.

1978 — defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

1979-1982 — Senior researcher, Head of the sector of the Research Institute of Labor of the USSR State Committee of Labor.

1982-1986 — Head of the Laboratory of the Central Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.