Vladimir Nikitović is a Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Centre for Demographic Research at the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade. Since Nov 2024, he has been the president of the Association of Demographers of Serbia.

He was born in 1973 in Užice (formerly Titovo Užice in SFR Yugoslavia), where he finished primary and grammar school. After a year of mandatory military service, he enrolled in studies at the University of Belgrade, where he received his academic education – a doctorate in demography at the Faculty of Economics (Probabilistic approach to projecting population of Serbia), a master’s degree in demography at the Faculty of Geography, and a degree in geography at the Faculty of Sciences.

Nikitović started his research career in Jan 1999, as a scholarship holder of the Ministry of science, at the Geographic Institute “Jovan Cvijić” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, before moving to the Institute of Social Sciences in 2005. From 2011 to 2024, he had been the editor-in-chief of Stanovništvo – one of the world oldest demographic journals. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Economics and the Belgrade Open School. His research interest is oriented towards projections of population dynamics, fertility, migration, population policy, and geodemography.

His publications, which include numerous research papers and conference proceedings, as well as six monographs in the field of demography, have been cited in top international journals and books by the world’s leading publishers. Nikitović is continuously engaged as a manager, national consultant, thematic expert and mentor on scientific and development projects, including those supported by the European Commission, UNDP, UNFPA, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Organization for Migration, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).
Since 2009, Nikitović has been engaged as a consultant in the creation of national strategies and public policies in the field of demography and spatial development. He is an evaluator of international scientific projects, a supervisor of doctoral theses, a mentor of young researchers and a reviewer in top international journals. Since 2003, Nikitović has been very active in the public of Serbia and the wider region, through debates, authored texts and interviews in the leading media, with the aim of raising awareness of the contemporary role of the population factor in the development of society. He was a scientific consultant in the highly rated and popular TV documentary about regional depopulation in Serbia – Zadnja kuća, Srbija, for the national broadcaster RTS (2010–2015).