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Ranko Jankov (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Јанков; born 1945) is an academic and politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the It's Enough – Restart association, better known in English by the name "Enough Is Enough."
Early life and academic career
Jankov was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, at about the time the province became part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He received an undergraduate degree (1967), a master's degree (1970), and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chemistry from the University of Belgrade, became an assistant at the same university following his graduation, and eventually rose through the ranks to become a full professor and head of the department of biochemistry. His main areas of interest are natural product chemistry, immunochemistry, and chemistry in education. Jankov was a member of the National Education Council of the Republic of Serbia from 2004 to 2008 and was the assistant minister for fundamental research in the Serbian ministry of science from 2007 to 2008.
Political career
Jankov received the eighth position on the It's Enough – Restart electoral list for the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election and was declared elected when the list won sixteen mandates. He is currently a member of the parliamentary committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; and a member of the parliamentary friendship group with Brazil.
Jankov opposed the selection of Muamer Zukorlić as chair of the education committee in 2016, noting Zukorlić's prior status as a mufti. He stated that he would not countenance science being overseen by a religious authority, irrespective of the specific religion in question.