Brankica Janković, master lawyer, was elected Commissioner for the Protection of Equality of the Republic of Serbia for the first time in May 2015 and for the second time in November 2020 by the National Assembly. Prior to the election, she held the position of the State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Policy from 2012-2014 and was the Director of the Gerontology Center Belgrade from 2006-2012. She was a secretary and teacher at the elementary and secondary school “Ruđer Bošković” in Belgrade and a producer and marketing director of RTV Politika and previously RTV Yugoslavia. She graduated at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, completed her master studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Novi Sad and is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Security in Belgrade. She speaks English and Russian.

Brankica Janković teaches master studies in the subject of Multicultural Social Work – Anti-Discrimination Policies and Practices at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, as well as at the Higher Security Studies of the School of National Defense of the Army of the Republic of Serbia, as a guest lecturer. She is a mentor with the Share Your Knowledge regional program organized by the European Movement in Serbia with the support of the OSCE Mission to the Republic of Serbia. She is a member of the editorial board of the professional journal “Social Thought”, chairperson of the editorial board of the magazine Current  Affairs and deputy editor-in-chief of the professional journal Social Policy. She has been a member of the Gerontological Society of Serbia for the past 15 years, where she has been engaged in the protection of  human rights of senior citizens; she is a volunteer with the Serbian Red Cross and honorary member of the Bel Hospice Club for palliative care. She was also a member of various professional and peer associations in the field of social protection, numerous humanitarian associations and foundations and the Ethics Committee of the Military Medical Academy. She was the initiator and member of several regional platforms for cooperation between women and human rights institutions. During her professional career, she participated in the drafting of various national strategic and legal documents. She has published numerous professional papers and publications.

She was the national project director on a string of projects, especially in the field of protection of women against violence – “Combating sexual and gender-based violence” and “Integrated response to violence against women“; she was the national coordinator of the Working Group on Aging of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe; the head of  Chapter 19 negotiations team (Social Policy and Employment) in the EU accession negotiation process, chairperson of the Subcommittee on Implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement in the field of Research, Innovation, Information Society and Social Policy and member of the Political Council for the implementation of Resolution 1325 Women, Peace, Security. She chaired several Councils of the Government of the Republic of Serbia – for the aging of the population of persons with disabilities and rights of children, and she was also the National Focal Point for aging and head of several state delegations of the Republic of Serbia.

Brankica Janković was awarded several awards and recognition certificates, including “2018 Contribution of the Year to Europe” and the OSCE “2017 Person of the Year” award, the National Recognition for Contribution to the Development of Social Protection System awarded by the Social Protection Association of the Republic of Serbia, the “Petar Manojlović” award for contribution to the improvement of the position of the elderly and the “Golden Wheel” award for her efforts in the protection of  human rights of the members of the Roma national minority, awarded by the National Council of Roma in Serbia.