Mr Dragan Vitorovic
Lecturer
Dragan Vitorovic has an interdisciplinary academic and research profile combining political science, strategic studies, finance and quantitative analysis. His international academic experience includes Erasmus studies and research activities at institutions in Greece, Germany, Italy and Serbia, as well as academic programmes and summer and winter schools in Estonia, Italy and Germany, including at TalTech and Tallinn University, and programmes in Trento, Turin and Würzburg. He has also pursued additional language and academic training at the University of Amsterdam and Goethe University Frankfurt.
He has gained experience in academic research, Master's thesis evaluation, examination support and student tutoring, including English-language academic support for internationally diverse students. His research and analytical work has been presented at international academic and policy-oriented events addressing contemporary geopolitical, technological and strategic challenges.
Teaching
Quantitative Methods for Business and Finance
Research Interests
His research interests include political risk, geopolitics, strategic foresight, space defence and cyber politics, particularly their intersections with technology, security, governance and international affairs.
Selected Research Presentations & Conferences
Political Risk Studies Association (PRSA) Symposium, Vienna, 2026 — “Political Risk and Scenario Planning: A New-Old Relationship.”
Governing Planetary Defense: Politics, Ethics, Law in the Global Response to an Asteroid Threat, Vienna, 2026 — Presentation on the adaptation of the Matrix Termini scenario-planning framework to planetary defence and space-security governance.
Dialogues on China 2025, Belgrade, 2025 — “Thucydides Trap: Looming Political Risks in the Era of China-US Competition.”
Data Science Conference Europe 2023, Belgrade, 2023 — “AI and Geopolitical Strategy.”