Iván Tibor Berend (Budapest, 11 de diciembre de 1930) es un historiador e historiador de la economía​ húngaro, profesor en UCLA.​ Antiguo presidente de la Academia Húngara de Ciencias,​ fue autor junto a György Ránki de obras como Magyarorszag Gazdasaga Az Elso Vilaghaboru Utan, 1919-1929 (1966),​ Economic Development in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Columbia University Press, 1974),​ Hungary–A Century of Economic Development (1974),​​ East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Akadémiai Kiadó, 1977),​ The European Periphery and Industrialisation, 1780-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1982)​ y The Hungarian Economy in the Twentieth Century (St. Martin's Press, 1985),​ entre otras. En solitario escribió Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 1996),​ Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II (University of California Press, 1998),​ History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century (University of California Press, 2003),​​ An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006),​ From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973 (Cambridge University Press, 2009),​ History in My Life: A Memoir of Three Eras (Central European University Press, 2009), una autobiografía,​Europe in crisis: Bolt from the blue (2013),​ An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe. Diversity and Industrialization (2013)​y A Century of Populist Demagogues: Eighteen European Portraits, 1918–2018 (2020),​ entre otras.