Stevan Gajić PhD (Political Science) is a researcher at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade and a visiting professor at MGIMO University in Moscow.  The areas of his academic expertise are American political thought (Based on his PhD dissertation he published a book From Slave to Citizen – The African-American Struggle for the Recognition of Humanity), European studies (especially the politics in central and eastern Europe and the Balkans), and Russian and post-Soviet politics and international relations. His field of expertise is in political science, diplomacy, history and geo-politics.

Stevan graduated political sciences in 2008 at the Faculty of Political Sciences — University of Belgrade. During his BA, in 2004-2005 he was an exchange student at the Political Science department at the University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire), and in 2005-2006 he attended the Belgrade Open School. In School of Slavonic and East European Studies — University College London, in 2009, he completed MA in Central and East European Studies. At the Central European University in Budapest in 2010 he finished his second MA degree in Nationalism Studies. Stevan obtained his PhD degree at the Faculty of Political Science — University of Belgrade in 2016. Stevan is fluent in English and Russian, and speaks Bulgarian at the middle level. Stevan is often a political commentator for media in Serbian, English and Russian languages.