Abebe Haile-Gabriel
Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative - FAO
Abebe Haile-Gabriel is the Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative of
FAO for Africa. A national of Ethiopia, Haile-Gabriel has more than 30 years of extensive
experience in strategic leadership and management in complex environments at national,
sub-regional and regional levels, focused on agricultural and rural development in Africa.
Haile-Gabriel holds a Doctorate and a Masters’ degree in Agricultural and Rural
Development from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, the
Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the
Alemaya (now Haramaya) University in Ethiopia.
