Vladimir Gligorov



Vladimir Gligorov (Macedonian and Serbian: Владимир Глигоров; 24 September 1945 – 27 October 2022) was a Macedonian economist, who worked primarily in Serbia. He was a founder of the Democratic Party in Serbia in December 1989. He was the son of the first President of the Republic of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov.

Gligorov was born in Belgrade, in the SFR Yugoslavia. He earned his master's degree at the Columbia University and the University of Belgrade working subsequently at both institutions as an assistant. At the University of Belgrade he worked at the Faculty of Political Sciences. He cooperated with the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade until 1991. Gligorov was a Senior Research Associate at The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Vienna and professor at the University of Graz. He was a Visiting Fellow at George Mason University, University of Virginia, Uppsala University and Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.

Gligorov died in Vienna on 27 October 2022, at the age of 77.