Alberto Carlos Zannini (born 27 August 1954) is an Argentine lawyer and politician.
He has been the Legal and Technical Secretary for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner since 2003.
Zannini has been described as “one of Kirchner’s most trusted men” and as “the power behind the President.” It has been said that his key attribute is his ability “to interpret the decisions of Cristina Kirchner” and to take “the political decisions of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner throughout the ‘winning decade’ and translated them into decrees, resolutions, and bills.”He is nicknamed “El Chino” (The Chinese) because of “his admiration during his youth for the policies of Mao Tse-Tung in the People's Republic of China.”