Janko is a cum laude alumnus of the TI MPhil program finance track (2011). He is currently in his final year of PhD in Finance at Tinbergen Institute and the VU University in Amsterdam. He is also a recipient of the Mozaiek research grant from the NWO. His research covers a broad range of topics in financial stability issues, bank regulation, bank disclosure, credit risk, and early-warning systems. His supervisor at the VU is Prof. Herbert A. Rijken.
Throughout the last couple of years, Janko has worked at a number of leading policy institutions and international organizations, including: International Monetary Fund (Monetary and Capital Markets), European Central Bank (DG-Economics, Fiscal Policies Division), De Nederlandsche Bank (Financial Stability Division), and the European Commission. In 2014 he also visited the NYU Stern School of Business, where he was working together with Prof. Edward I. Altman on early warning models for banks and for sovereigns.