Zoran Janjetović is principal research fellow at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia. Janjetović was born in Zagreb in 1967. He studied history at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Belgrade. He took the post-graduate course at the same faculty at the chair for General Contemporary History 1993-1997 and at the Central European University in Budapest 1994-995. He defended his MA paper with the title “Emigration of the German Minority from the Vojvodina 1944-1948“ at both universities. Since 1994 he has been employed as researcher at the Institute or Recent History of Serbia in Belgrade. He defended his Ph.D. with the title „National Minorities in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia 1918-1941“ professors Andrej Mitrović and Milan Ristović being his doctoral sponsors. He has published eight books and more than 130 articles in Serbian and foreign journals and edited volumes in Serbian, English, German, Hungarian, Czech, Macedonian, Turkish and Japanese. He also edited four volumes of articles, prepared for publication the memoirs of  Kosta Sofronijević and translated the biography of Johann Albrecht von Reiswitz by Andreas Roth. He took part at numerous international conferences in Serbia and abroad, as well as in several international projects (Grenzen der Wiedergutmachung. Die Entschädigung für die NS-Verfolgte in West- und Osteuropa 2005-2006; Arbeitsverwaltungen und Arbeitskräftepolitik im deutschbesetzten Polen und Serbien 1939-1944, 2010-2011.) At the turn of the 21st century he was regular participant at conferences with Croatian historians organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. He was one of the organizers of the conferences Vom „Verschwinden“ der deutschprachigen Minderheiten. Ein schwieriges Kapitel in der Geschichte Jugoslawiens 1941-1955 in Gornja Radgona/Bad Radkersburg, Austria in 2015 and On the Edge of Christian Europe, in Belgrade in 2019.

He spent three research stays in Germany (1997, 2000 and 2007) in well-known institutes in Mainz (Leibniz-Institut für europäische Geschichte), Tuebingen (Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde) and Munich (Institut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen Südosteuropas).

He served three terms as a chairman of the Scolarly Council of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia. He is the member of the Scolarly Council of the Central Danube-Swabian Museum in Ulm, of the Historical Commission for South-East Europe of the Pro-Oriente Foundation, of the Commission for History and Culture of the Germans of South-Eastern Europe and sits on the editorial board of  Godišnjak za istraživanje genocida from Belgrade. He speaks English and German and has working knowledge of Italian, French, Macedonian and Slovenian.

His scholarly interests cover national minorities in the former Yugoslav territory, WWII, Yugoslav-German relations and social history.