Stanislav Sretenović (Belgrade, 1970) is a principal research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade. After completing his studies in history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, he obtained his master’s degree at the University of Nancy (France) with a thesis titled La France et le Royaume de Yougoslavie 1934–1940 (France and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1934–1940). He earned his doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) with the topic La France et le nouveau Royaume des Serbes, Croates et Slovènes 1918–1929: des relations inter-étatiques inégales (France and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 1918–1929: Disproportionate Interstate Relations). In addition to conducting research in Serbian archives, he has explored archives in

Paris (AMAE, AN), Vansen (SHD), Nantes (CAD), London (PRO) and Rome (MAE AD). He was on training, as a lecturer or visiting professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, the French School in Rome (EFR), the National School of Political Sciences (Sciences Po) in Paris, the University of Bradford and the University of Birmingham. (England), University of Paris-Nanter, Paris-Pantheon Sorbonne and Paris Sorbonne. As an author or co-author, he published several books, the most important of which are: Dučić u Rimu (Beograd, 2002); Francuska i Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, 1918-1929 (Beograd, 2006); Ambassade de France à Belgrade/Ambasada Francuske u Beogradu (co-author Emmanuel Breon, Paris, 2013); Sa srpskom vladom i vojskom od Niša do Krfa, 1915/16: Francuska svedočanstva/Avec le gouvernement et l’armée serbe de Nich à Corfou, 1915/16, (Novi Sad-Beograd, 2016).

His fields of research include the history of international relations, the history of diplomacy, the history of warfare, as well as French and Italian foreign policy in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. He also studies migration and the relationship between history and memory. He publishes scholarly works in Serbian, French, English, and Italian.

For his contribution to historical research, he was awarded the French National Order of Merit in the rank of knight.