Prof. Dr. Svetislav V. Kostić is an Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Until 2016 Dr. Kostić also held the post of a Director with Deloitte Serbia Tax Services. He is one of the founders of the Serbian branch of the International Fiscal Association, currently in the capacity of its Secretary General.

He is a member of the Practice Council of the New York University School of Law LL.M in International Taxation and one of the Vice Chairs of the IFA Europe Region. He has been lecturing at various undergraduate and graduate courses at the East African School of Taxation (Kampala, Uganda), New York University School of Law (LL.M in International Taxation Lunch Lectures), University of Amsterdam, University of Lausanne, the Financial University with the Government of the Russian Federation, University of Sarajevo and Strathmore University (Nairobi, Kenya).

Dr. Kostić primarily focuses his research on the impact the digital economy and well as other broader global issues (demographics, climate change) may have on individual income taxation, publishing in the most prestigious peer review journals such as the World Tax Journal or Intertax.

In addition to advising clients on a regular basis on complex national and international tax matters, he had a chance to implement the results of this academic research as an advisor to the Serbian Government, wherein he has been since 2018 the head of the working groups which designed the Serbian IP Box regime, double R&D deduction, incentives to improve the comparative position of domestic employers when attempting to retain, as well as to attract highly qualified workforce, provisions dealing with the taxation of NFTs, crypto currencies and other types of digital assets.