Olivier Paquet (born 21 April 1973 at Compiègne) is a French political scientist and science fiction author.
Paquet graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble in 1994 and went on to complete his DEA in 1995. He completed a doctorate in political science at the institution in 2002.[1] As an author, he won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire award in 2002 for his short fiction Synesthésie, which was published in Galaxies magazine in 2000.[2] He is also a columnist for the France Culture radio station and an anime and manga critic.[3]