Predrag J. Marković was born in 1965. He enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy in 1981, earned his master’s degree in 1991, and completed his PhD in 1995 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He has received numerous international scholarships, including the Sasakawa Scholarship for the best postgraduates at Belgrade University, the SSEES University of London Scholarship, DAAD, Roman von Herzog, Humboldt, and Collegium Budapest. Marković lectures and publishes scientific papers in both English and German, and he is also proficient in Italian and Bulgarian.

He has been employed at the Institute of Contemporary History since March 1987 and has served as its director since 2019. Predrag Marković has lectured at numerous foreign universities, including Harvard, Columbia, and the Free University of Berlin. In Serbia, he has been engaged as a visiting professor at several faculties since 2005, primarily at the Faculty of Media and Communications Singidunum, where he teaches various courses related to the history of media and culture. He has acted as an associate or regional coordinator on numerous international projects. Marković is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg and has been actively involved as a member of the Council for the Promotion of Serbia. He also served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Broadcasting Institution of Serbia (RTS) from 2006 to 2016 and was a member of the National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO. For his contributions, he was awarded the “Zlatni beočug” prize. He has held positions on the management boards of various cultural, educational, and scientific institutions in Belgrade and throughout Serbia. Since September 2015, he has been the vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Since 1987, he has participated as an author and expert associate in the creation of a large number of educational television and radio shows, and was the author of several hundred quiz shows. He wrote about twenty books. In addition to books, he wrote about a hundred scientific papers, almost half of which were published abroad, mostly in English and German, as well as dozens of newspaper articles and essays. In his books, he mainly dealt with the history of society and culture in the 20th century. He translated seven books from English and wrote one book in English, which went through two editions. He opened some unresearched topics in Serbian historiography (history of everyday life, history of stereotypes and mental mapping, history of modernization and Europeanization, history of student movements, urban history, history of gender and family, history of national identities, influence of the Cold War on culture and society, the change of liberal and repressive phases of socialism, the phenomenon of nostalgia for socialism, the history of guest workers, the influence of culture and ideology on private life, the history of relations with social institutions, the history of feelings and interpersonal relations, the history of culture and the media, the history of historiography, etc.).

Some of these topics later became very popular among younger generations of scientists, not only historians, but also historians of art, literature, architecture and film, sociologists and anthropologists. This is probably the reason why Predrag J. Marković is one of the ten most cited Serbian historians, according to the data of the “Svetozar Marković” University Library and the JSTOR search engine.