Katarina Stanić is a researcher and founder of the Center for Social Policy (CSP) and an associate professor at the FEFA Faculty of Metropolitan University.

Prior to CSP, she worked as a researcher at the Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies in Belgrade. From 2005 to 2010, she was a project economist and pension policy advisor on USAID projects implemented by BearingPoint/Deloitte Consulting LLP in Belgrade. Between late 2010 and 2012, she worked as a pension policy consultant on the USAID project "Pension and Labor Market Reform" in Armenia. From 2001 to 2005, she was a researcher at the Economics Institute in Belgrade. She has been engaged  in numerous projects for the World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, the European Commission, and other international organizations, focusing on pension policy and social protection in old age, family protection and work-parenting balance, program budgeting in social protection and education, and financing of preschool and inclusive education.

Katarina is the author and co-author of numerous articles, including What is Actually the Size of the Pension System Deficit in Serbia? (2005), Registered Employment and Wages – Statistical Data and Trends 2000–2005 (2005), Old-age Income Replacement by Pension System in Serbia – Measurement and International Comparisons (2008), Understanding the Increase in the Number of Childbirth Leave Beneficiaries in Serbia (2017), and The Serbian Pension System in Transition: A Silent Break with Bismarck (2020). She has also co-authored several monographs, such as Challenges of Introduction of the Mandatory Private Pension System in Serbia (2009), The Pension System in Serbia – Design, Characteristics, and Recommendations (2010), and Social Protection in Old Age: Long-Term Care and Social Pensions (2014).

She holds a degree from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade and earned her master's and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Nottingham, UK. Katarina is a Chevening Scholar, a recipient of scholarships from the University of Nottingham and the Crown Prince Alexander II Foundation for Education, and a grantee of the Open Society Institute's Global Supplementary Grant Program.