Anita Gbeho

Anita Kiki Gbeho (born 1964) is a Ghanaian United Nations official who has served as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan since 2026, having previously served as Deputy Special Representative since 2023.

Early life and education Gbeho was born in Accra, Ghana. Her father, V. C. Gbeho, was Ghana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

She attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and African Studies. She then took a master's degree in international relations at the University of Ghana.

Between 2015 and 2016 she was the Resident Coordinator and Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Namibia. In 2018 Gbeho became Deputy Joint Special Envoy for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), taking over from Bintou Keita.

Gbeho was appointed Deputy Special Envoy by António Guterres at the end of 2020 for the United Nations Support Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), succeeding Raisedon Zenenga from Zimbabwe, who became the Assistant UN Secretary-General coordinator of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). who was the target of an assassination attempt that killed others in 2019. She spent some of her time travelling to different areas in Somalia to understand their needs, although security limits her freedom. She completed her assignment in Somalia as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) in 2023.

In January 2022 Gbeho attended the Africa Union (AU) and Federal Government of Somalia's Technical meeting in Mogadishu, with international representatives including Tiina Intelmann of the EU and Kate Foster of the UK. The 14 year long AMISOM mission comes to an end in March 2022 and it will be a replaced by a Somali led operation African Union Transition Mission is Somalia (ATMIS).

From 2023 to 2026 she served as Deputy Special Representative in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and Resident Coordinator in South Sudan, and was appointed to the role of Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in 2026, following the death of Nicholas Haysom.