(born July 15, 1961) is a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
He later became a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East.
Prior to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, becoming according to The New York Times "the loudest and most credible skeptic of the Bush administration’s contention that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction."