Gligorov was born in 1945 in
Belgrade,
DF Yugoslavia, as the son of
Kiro Gligorov and Nada Gligorova. He earned his master's degree at the
Columbia University and the
University of Belgrade, working subsequently at both institutions as an assistant professor. At the University of Belgrade he worked at the
Faculty of Political Sciences. In 1990, he actively participated in the Macedonian Forum for Preparation of a Macedonian National Program (which discussed the status of the Yugoslav Federation and the
Socialist Republic of Macedonia), along with his father. Gligorov co-founded the political party
Democratic Party (DS) in Serbia. He cooperated with the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade until 1991. He worked as a lecturer at the
University of Vienna and professor at the
University of Graz. ==References==