Gabriel Boc is a Senior Agriculture and Food Security Specialist in the Green Climate Fund’s (CGF) Division of Mitigation and Adaptation. In his current role, Gabriel is responsible for providing thought leadership on funding ideas for paradigm shifting pathways in developing countries and promoting innovative investment models in agriculture and food security to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. As such, Gabriel is leading the development and management of a high-quality pipeline of proposals for agriculture and food security and leading the task teams for appraisal and assessment of funding proposals by working closely with accredited entities and coordinating interdivisional reviews. He is currently responsible primarily for the Africa region, with occasional engagements in Eastern Europe and Latin America. 

Prior to joining the GCF, Gabriel worked as an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. As part of the FAO Investment Centre, he provided technical expertise for the design of investment operations, in collaboration with country stakeholders and international financial institutions, to mobilize resources for food security, agriculture, rural development, and natural resource management. Gabriel supported or led the origination and development of over 20 investment operations, and contributed to the implementation, supervision and final evaluation of over 10 projects, mostly across Sub-Saharan Africa. He started with FAO as a policy officer in the Eastern Africa sub-regional hub in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he supported the development and implementation of regional investment projects on food security in the Horn of Africa. 

Other previous roles include consulting with the World Bank’s investment climate and competition team and working as a policy analyst in the private sector development division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in both instances based in Paris, France. 

Gabriel holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Public and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA in Integrated Social Sciences from Jacobs University Bremen. He is fluent in English and French, and a native speaker of Romanian.