| Lautafi Fio Selafi Purcell | |
| Office3: | Minister of Labour, Industry and Commerce |
| Primeminister3: | Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi |
| Term Start3: | 18 March 2016 |
| Term End3: | 24 May 2021 |
| Predecessor3: | Fonotoe Pierre Lauofo |
| Successor3: | Faumuina Asi Pauli Wayne Fong |
| Office4: | Minister of Public Enterprises |
| Term Start4: | 26 April 2014 |
| Term End4: | 24 May 2021 |
| Predecessor4: | Position established |
| Successor4: | Faumuina Asi Pauli Wayne Fong |
| Office5: | Minister of Tourism |
| Term Start5: | 18 March 2016 |
| Term End5: | 30 June 2016 |
| Predecessor5: | Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi |
| Successor5: | Sala Fata Pinati |
| Constituency Mp10: | Satupaitea |
| Parliament10: | Samoan |
| Term Start10: | 2 August 2011 |
| Predecessor10: | Asiata Sale'imoa Va'ai |
| Party: | Human Rights Protection Party |
Lautafi Fio Selafi Joseph Purcell is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.
Purcell was educated at Chanel College, Moamoa and St Paul's College, Auckland as well as Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.[1] He subsequently worked as a prison manager, prison inspector and policy advisor for the New Zealand Department of Justice and Department of Corrections.[1]
Purcell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in a 2011 by-election,[2] and appointed Associate Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.[1] Following a Cabinet reshuffle in April 2014 he was appointed as the first Minister of Public Enterprises.[3]
He was re-elected unopposed at the 2016 Samoan general election[4] [5] and appointed Minister of Labour, Tourism and Samoa Land Corporation, as well as retaining his Government Enterprises portfolio.[6] [7] Another reshuffle in June 2016 saw him lose the Tourism portfolio to Sala Fata Pinati but retain Labour, Commerce, and Government Enterprises.[8]
He is married to public servant Lematua Gisa Fuatai Purcell.[9]