Ian Inkster (born 4 August 1949) is a professor of international history at Nottingham Trent University, He is the editor of the History of Technology since 2002 and frequent contributor to Taiwan's Taipei Times.
Beginning in the early 1970s, he has written many books and articles on the influence of scientific and technological change on the course of global history since the 18th century, with particular focus on the UK and Japan, and more recently at a global level.