Nikola Zeljković graduated in Political Science (specialization in European Studies) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has also studied in the Czech Republic at the Masaryk University in Brno and was an international fellow at the Caucasus Research Resource Center in Tbilisi, Georgia. He worked as a vice-chairperson at the International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS). His research interests include the geopolitics of energy, international politics and European studies.