Pursuant to the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, the position of the Acting Director of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia was assumed by Branko Josipović, the so far acting Assistant director of the Department for regional statistical and analytical centres.
Branko Josipović was born in 1974 in Valjevo. He graduated from University of Novi Sad, the Faculty of technical sciences and attained the title of graduate engineer of electrotechnics and computing science. Branko Josipović has been employed with SORS from 2003. Until 2010 he was engaged as an information system project designer, and from 2010 to 2019 Branko Josipović held the position of the head of the SORS regional office/department in Valjevo. Starting from April 2019 he was on the position of Assistant director of the Department for regional statistical and analytical centres.
As the Assistant director of the Department for regional statistical and analytical centres Branko Josipović was responsible for the activities of data collecting, processing and analysis, and for the SORS modernization; therefore he organized and conducted the surveys of special national interest.
Apart from the charges of assistant director, Branko Josipović was responsible for the development and implementation of the System of support to decision-making, which was for SORS of crucial importance as regards data processing and analysis, with the aim of transmitting key information to decisionmakers in the Republic of Serbia, and for the development and implementation of the System of rapid surveys for the prediction of economic indicators.
Branko Josipović is a member several of international expert teams engaged on the promotion and upgrading of the European and world official statistics.
Branko Josipović is a permanent member of UNECE, an international body for the application od innovative solutions in the process of modernization of statistical institutions and their work.
He is a permanent member of the UN group for monitoring all activities of modernizing the global system of official statistics.
Branko Josipović is a contributor to the MAT magazine, he is author and co-author od series of articles on assessment of the status in various industrial domains and predictions of major economic indicators and movements.
Branko Josipović was appointed the SORS Acting Director on 13 June 2024.