Juergen H. Gangoly
Managing Director, The Skills Group I TEAM FARNER, Austria
PR Quality Auditor (CMS), AgencyExperts.org

As Managing Director of The Skills Group I TEAM FARNER (www.skills.at), one of Austria’s leading communications agencies, Juergen serves as consultant for international corporations, NGOs, public institutions, tourism destinations and industry associations since almost 30 years. He leads projects and long-term accounts in corporate communications, public affairs, crisis and change communications, sustainability and digital strategies.

Juergen and his agency team at Skills (www.skills.at) are amongst the most-awarded communications experts in Europe, receiving national and international communications prizes multiple times, such as the Austrian State PR award, the IPRA Gold Awards, ICCO Global PR Awards, the German International PR prize, the PR Report Awards, the SABRE Awards, the PRO PR Award (Croatia) and the Austrian Business Film Award.

The last 15 years, Juergen served as board member and vice president of the Austrian PR Trust Seal, the Austrian PR Association (PRVA) and is its international delegate now. As such, he is a very active Board Member of the International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) and served as ICCO’s European President until 2020.

Together with ICCO and international communications industry leaders, he co-founded AgencyExperts.org, providing – based on ICCO’s international Consultancy Management Standard (CMS) – Coaching and independent Quality Audits for Communications Agencies worldwide.

For “exceptional contribution to the internationalization of the public relations industry”, Juergen became one of the few inductees of the “International PR Hall of Fame” (ICCO, 2020).

Being an author and co-author of books and educational publications, Juergen regularly serves as lecturer at universities in different European countries. He holds an MBA in General Management and a Doctor degree in Business Administration. His studies focused on sustainability communications, change management and digitalization. His doctoral thesis on the Austrian Educational System led to the development of the publicly used „Austrian Educational Climate Index“.