Ferenc Miszlivetz (born June 10, 1954) is a Hungarian academic. He is full professor at the University of Pannonia, and director of the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK). His research interests include democracy, civil society, Central-European and European Studies, globalization and sustainability.

Miszlivetz graduated with an M.A. from Karl Marx University of Economics, Budapest, in 1978, and obtained a PhD in 20th Century European History from ELTE, Budapest in 1983. He studied abroad at the University of Sussex in 1983-84 and at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1989. He received his habilitation from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2004, and was acknowledged as Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in International Relations in 2005.

In the early 1990s, Miszlivetz worked at the Dániel Berzsenyi Teacher Training College in Szombathely. While there, he also worked at the Sociological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and served as the spokesman for the Democratic Charter. In 1993 he founded Savaria University Press. In the 2000s, he was visiting professor at Babeș-Bolyai University, University of Vienna, and Columbia University. From 2008 till 2017 he was guest lecturer at the University of Bologna (MIREES programme) and from 2009 till 2013 he held a UNESCO Chair in cultural heritage management and sustainability at ISES-Corvinus, Kőszeg. In 2010-2012 Miszlivetz was research professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University and from 2014 full professor at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém – Kőszeg. The following year he founded the Institute of Advanced Studies, Kőszeg (IASK), which he directs since.

Since 2012 Miszlivetz has served as chair of the social sciences unit of the Hungarian UNESCO Committee and holds a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Sustainability in Kőszeg.

Since 2026 he is an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.