Ambassador

Aleksandar Janković

 

Professional Career:

July 2022 – December 2023              Ambassador, Deputy Assistant Minister for Bilateral Cooperation, MFA 

November 2021 - July 2022              Director of the Department for Africa and the Middle East, MFA

April 2017 - November 2021            Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (from October 2019 to November 2021 also the Non-Resident Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Mali, based in Algiers)

March 2015 - April 2017                   Minister-Counselor / Head of the Department for Asia, Australia and the Pacific, MFA

September 2012 - March 2015          First Counselor, later Minister-Counselor at the Department for Asia, Australia and the Pacific, MFA (Acting Head of the Department from March to October 2013 and from November 2014 to March 2015)

August 2006 - August 2012               Counselor for Political Affairs and Press, Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Beijing, People's Republic of China

June 2005 – August 2006                  First Secretary / Coordinator at the Secretariat of the Sector for Bilateral Cooperation, MFA

June 2003 – June 2005                      Second Secretary for Political and Economic Affairs, Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro in Nicosia, the Republic of Cyprus

March 2001 – June 2003                   Attaché, later Third Secretary for Political and Economic Affairs, Embassy of the FR Yugoslavia in London, United Kingdom

July 1998 – March 2001                    Intern, later Attaché, MFA

Before starting his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he worked in the corporate sector.

 

Education:

- Graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Belgrade in 1997, where he later obtained a master’s degree

- 1998 – 1999 - Diplomatic Academy, MFA, Belgrade 

As part of the professional training, participated in several seminars organized by MFA of Sweden (November 2000), MFA of Belgium (February 2006) and MFA of China (2007, 2011).

Co-author (with Živorad Simić) of the book "Cyprus - History of Unification" (2015) and author of books "China`s Economic Development" (2017) and “Globalization 2.0 – Towards the Second Century of the People’s Republic of China” (2023).

Speaks English and French.

Married, father of two.