Živorad "Žika" Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Живорад Жика Петровић; 1939 – 25 April 2000) was a Serbian engineer and business executive. He was assassinated in the spring of 2000. At the time of his death, Petrović was the CEO of Serbian flag carrier Jat Airways. The crime remains unsolved to this day. Petrović graduated from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Transport in 1968. He became Jat's CEO in 1992. He was a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), a political party headed at the time by Slobodan Milošević.