Vitali Silicki (25 December 1972 — 11 June 2011) was a Belarusian political scientist, one of the founders of the Belarusian Institute for Political Studies.
He graduated from the Belarusian State University, majoring in sociology, and then received a Master of Political Science at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), followed by a doctorate in political science at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) where he obtained a . From 1999 to 2003, he was Associate Professor at the European Humanities University in Minsk, from which he was forced to resign for political reasons. After his discharge he worked as an independent expert. He regularly contributed to leading Belarusian periodicals such as «ARCHE» and "Nasha Niva". In 2006–2007 he was a visiting researcher at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University (USA).
Silicki specialised in the field of economic reform policies, the democratization of the post-electoral revolutions and preventive authoritarianism, the EU policy in the former Soviet Union, Belarus' relations with Russia and the EU.
Between 2007 and 2011 he headed the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, which under his leadership developed into a leading Belarusian think tank. Vitali Silitski died from cancer on June 11, 2011 at the age of 39.
In 2011, the Institute of European Studies and International Relations , and the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies), with the support of the Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation, established a scholarship program for Belarusian students named after Vitali Silicki. The program enables young Belarusians to study in Slovakia.