Oliver Vitouch (born 4 April 1971 in Vienna) is an Austrian psychologist and cognitive scientist.

From January 2015 to May 2016, he was in charge as President of the Alps-Adriatic Rectors’ Conference (AARC), a society founded 1979 in Graz with currently 49 member universities from Austria, Southern Germany, Hungary, Upper Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Albania.

[18] As Vice-President of Universities Austria, Vitouch was significantly involved into the emergence of the initiative Universities for Enlightenment (U4E), sustained by the Rectors' Conferences of Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

[20][21] Due to the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vitouch announced in early November 2021 that the University of Klagenfurt will be requiring COVID vaccination for all community members who partake in on-campus activities.

[28][29] In January 2022, Vitouch ran for President of the University of Vienna for the four-year term starting with October 2022.

On April 30, the Board of trustees decided for Sebastian Schütze, an art historian and incumbent dean of the university.

[30][31] From November 2017 to January 2020, Vitouch wrote for the column Außensicht (German for "outer view") of Kleine Zeitung, Austria's largest regional daily.