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FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

Deputy Regional Representative

The primary responsibility of the Deputy Regional Representatives is to assist the Regional Representatives in discharging managerial and administrative responsibilities of the Regional Offices, as well as liaison with the Members in collaboration with FAO Representatives of the region and particularly in countries without FAO Representative.
Deputy Regional Representative: Nabil Gangi

Nabil Gangi has served as FAO Deputy Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia since March 2019. In October 2025, he also assumed the roles of Subregional Coordinator for Central Asia and FAO Representative in Türkiye ad interim.

Deputy Regional Representative: Raimund Jehle

Raimund Jehle, FAO Deputy Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, was appointed in January 2016. He has a wealth of experience in a wide range of areas at the United Nations and the European Commission.

Before being appointed as Deputy Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia and Secretary of its Regional Conference, Nabil Gangi, a national of Canada, held the same post in FAO’s Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa in Cairo, his city of birth. Prior to that, he headed the Organization’s Shared Services Centre in Budapest, providing support to FAO’s essential administrative operations, including human resources, financial services, and asset and travel management.

During his 25 year career with FAO, Nabil has assumed increasingly senior-level positions including in FAO’s headquarters in Rome where he successfully managed staff-related benefits, particularly in the area of pensions and social security for the Rome-based UN agencies.

More recently, in addition to his role as Deputy Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, Nabil heads the FAO offices in four Western Balkan countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. 

Throughout his career in international development Nabil has travelled extensively leading several organizational development missions in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America.

Raimund Jehle, a national of Germany, has a PhD in agricultural economics. 

Jehle has more than 30 years’ experience in the agriculture sector. Prior to joining FAO, he was a farmer, held several positions in academia and worked as a consultant for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs in Brussels. 

Since joining FAO in 1999, he has served in various positions at FAO headquarters in Rome and, as of 2007, in the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia in Hungary including several senior positions. 

Parallel to his current position, since 2016 he is serving as multi-accredited FAO Representative in Albania, Armenia, Georgia and Republic of Moldova.