Dejan Malinic is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade. He teaches courses in Management Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis (undergraduate studies), Policy of Income and Strategic Controlling (master studies), and Advanced Management Accounting and Strategic Management Accounting (doctoral studies).

As an author or co-author he has published books: Management Accounting, Policy of Company's Income, Divisional Accounting, Financial Markets and a monograph The Financial Performance Measurement in the Telecommunications – The Case of Serbia. Moreover, he has published more than hundred scientific and research papers in the fields of management accounting, corporate finance and financial reporting. He also took part in numerous studies and projects in the fields of accounting, firm's value evaluation, business and financial restructuring, management control, and corporate governance.

He was a member of the Accounting Board in Serbian Association of Accountants and Auditors. He is also a member of the Presidency of Serbian Association of Economists and the Editorial Board of the SAE Journal of Business Economics and Management (Ekonomika preduzeca). From 2004 to 2011 he was a member of Securities Commission of Republic of Serbia. He is a certified public accountant.

Since 2015 he has been the Head of Department of Accounting and Corporate Finance.