Vladimir Rakhmanin
Vladimir Olegovich Rakhmanin (born 1958) became FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia in January 2014. Russian by nationality, Rakhmanin completed a Master's diploma in international relations from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1980. Rakhmanin has enjoyed a distinguished career in the Russian civil service, including appointments as the Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998–2000), Chief of Protocol of the President of the Russian Federation (2000–2002), and Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ireland (2002–2006). From 2008 until joining FAO, Rakhmanin served as Deputy Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels.
Before becoming Deputy Secretary General, Vladimir Rakhmanin was Ambassador at Large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, chairing the Working Group on the Mechanism of Peace and Security in Northeast Asia of the Six-Party Talks on Denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
Throughout his career, Rakhmanin was involved in policy-related issues at the national and international level.
Rakhmanin speaks Russian, English and Chinese. He is married and has two sons and a daughter.
Career with the Russian Civil Service
- 1980–1982 Attaché, First Far East Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Moscow
- 1982–1983 Third Secretary, Embassy of the Soviet Union in the People’s Republic of China, Beijing
- 1983–1986 Third Secretary, Embassy of the Soviet Union in the United States of America, Washington D.C.
- 1986–1992 Head of Secretariat of Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR (Asia-Pacific Region), Moscow
- 1992–1996 Political Counsellor, Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United States of America, Washington D.C.
- 1996–1998 Deputy Director, First Asia Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- (relations with China, Republic of Korea, DPRK, Northeast Asia Security issues), Moscow
- 1998–2000 Director, Information and Press Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow
- 2000–2002 Chief of Protocol of the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow
- 2002–2006 Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Ireland, Dublin
- 2007–2008 Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow
- July 2008- Deputy Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels
- January 2014 - Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Budapest, Hungary