Nektarios Farmakis, Regional Governor of Western Greece Nektarios Farmakis was born in 1980 and grew up in Agrinio, a small city in the Regional Unit of Aetoloakarnania, Greece. He studied at the Law School of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in Civil Procedural Law. He has been an Ombudsman accredited by the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights since 2013. He is a lawyer before the Supreme Court. He has been practicing Law since 2006 as a member of the Agrinio Bar Association. He speaks two foreign languages, English and German. He is married to Lawyer Evi Chr. Pappa. They have a daughter and a son. In the regional elections of November, 2010, at the age of 30, he was elected first as Regional Councilor in Regional Unit of Aetoloakarnania. For many years, with his interventions and proposals to the Regional Council of Western Greece, he has highlighted the need for mitigating intra-regional inequalities, prioritizing regional strategies based on taking advantage of the comparative advantages of each Regional Unit and taking the initiative to add value to anything produced in the Region of Western Greece, by making good use of its human resources, know-how and natural resources. He was elected Head of the Region of Western Greece in June, 2019 and assumed his duties on 1 September during this year. He was reelected Head of the Region of Western Greece in September 2023.