Dr Samuel Rizk
Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pakistan
Dr Samuel Rizk has served as UNDP Resident Representative in Pakistan since July 2023. He previously headed Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions in UNDP’s Crisis Bureau in New York. His earlier UNDP assignments include managing the Regional Bureau for Arab States’ Sub-Regional Response Facility in Amman, serving as UNDP Country Director in Syria, and working on conflict prevention and peace and development in Sudan and Yemen. Dr Rizk holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, an MA in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo, and a BA in Political Science from Hanover College, USA.