| Honorific-Prefix: | Cllr |
| Anood Al-Samerai | |
| Office: | Lib Dem Group Leader on Southwark Council |
| Deputy: | Paul Noblet Adele Morris |
| Term Start: | 18 May 2010 |
| Term End: | 9 May 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Nick Stanton |
| Office1: | Southwark Borough Councillor for Riverside ward |
| Term Start1: | 13 December 2007 |
| Term End1: | 9 May 2022 |
| Predecessor1: | Paul Baichoo |
| Birth Place: | Southwark, London |
| Nationality: | British |
| Party: | Liberal Democrats |
Anood Al-Samerai is a British Southwark-based councillor for British political party, the Liberal Democrats and leader of Southwark's Liberal Democrat Group.[1] [2]
Born in Southwark, London to an Iraqi father and an English mother. Al-Samerai had lived in Kuwait prior to reaching the age of ten with both her parents until she later moved to London due to the occurrence of the first Gulf War.[3]
From 2004, Al-Samerai managed the Liberal Democrats MP Simon Hughes office, with previous experience working within the British public sector including work for Guy's Hospital, as well as working abroad in orphanages both in Bosnia and Bulgaria.[3] She has also served as councillor in Southwark since 2007. She was the Lib Dem Candidate for Ilford South in the 2010 General Election, finishing 3rd with 8,679 votes (17.0% of the total).
In May 2010 she was elected Lib Dem group leader after the 2010 election, with Paul Noblet as her Deputy. She continued in that role after 2014 election.[4]