Vladeta Janković

Vladeta Janković, PhD (Serbian Cyrillic: Владета Јанковић; 1 September 1940) is a Serbian philologist, university professor a founder member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) in July 1992. He served as Yugoslav ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2001 and the Holy See from 2008 to 2012.

Early life[]

Vladeta Janković was born on 1 September 1940 in Belgrade. His father Dragoslav Janković was a university professor and his mother Bosiljka Janković (née Kokanović) was a librarian.^[1]

He graduated from a gymnasium in Belgrade in 1959. Janković enrolled at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, where he studied world literature and graduated in 1964. He finished his master's degree in 1967, and defended his doctoral thesis in 1975 titled "Menander's Characters and European Drama".^[1]

Political career[]

He was appointed Yugoslav Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2001. From 2004, he was chief foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister of Serbia, Vojislav Koštunica, and was elected the Deputy President of the Democratic Party of Serbia. He was Serbia's Ambassador to the Holy See from February 2008 to August 2012.

Personal life[]

Janković is married to lawyer Slavka (née Srdić), with whom he has a son Uroš and daughter Mara.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Interview with Vladeta Jankovic for the BBC
• Introduction to Vladeta Jankovic’s lecture at Cambridge University
• Vladeta Jankovic’s lecture at Cambridge University

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