James Gordon MacKinnon (born January 4, 1951) is the head of the Economics Department and an econometrics professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics. He has also been involved in fundraising for the David Smith Chair of Economics, a fund established for the purpose of hiring a new economics professor.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971 from Glendon College (York University), a Master of Arts degree in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1974, both from Princeton University.
James MacKinnon has co-written (with Russell Davidson of McGill University) two econometrics textbooks, Estimation and Inference in Econometrics and Econometric Theory and Methods.