Samir Anouti serves as UNFPA Country Representative for Libya since January 2022.

He is a public health and international development expert with substantive experience and record of accomplishment in leading development and technical cooperation programmes, innovative partnerships, and resource mobilization. He brings over 22 years of international service with the United Nations including positions with UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNAIDS, and The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Secretariat. His duty stations of service to date included: Tripoli, Cairo, Amman, Geneva, Djibouti, and Beirut.

He holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree from the American University of Beirut, and is a member of several international and regional associations, including the Canadian Public Health Association, and, the Association pour la Santé Publique du Québec.