Zoran Janković (economist)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other persons of the same name, see Zoran Janković.

Zoran Janković (born January 1, 1953 in Saraorci, Serbia) is a Slovenian economist. He moved to Slovenia in 1964. He attended high school Poljane in Ljubljana and in 1971 entered the Economic faculty, where he graduated 9 years later in 1980. He started his career as director of Mercator investa in 1984. Later he founded a company called Electa and he used to be the chairman of the Mercator since 1997, the biggest retail company in Slovenia. He was replaced from this position in 2006. In the year 1998 he was helping in the school afair, where his younger son Jure cheated on the final school exams. ^[1] On 22 October 2006, he was elected mayor of Ljubljana with 63% beating the other candidates. His list won 23 out of 45 seats in the City hall senate. He took the leading of Ljubljana on November 17, 2006. Among other things, he promised to improve Ljubljana's transport infrastructure and to complete various other projects, one of them being a Football stadium. He was the founder of a handball club Krim Electa. and its president for 5 years, since 1992-1997 ^[2] He was the president of the handball association of Slovenia for 8 years, since 1996-2004. He was also the vice president of the basketball club Union Olimpija for 6 years, since 1984-1990.