FAO Goodwill Ambassador

Celebrity advocate of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's mission

This article is about the FAO goodwill ambassador title. For other uses, see Goodwill ambassador (disambiguation).

FAO Goodwill Ambassador is an official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status and job description assigned to goodwill ambassadors and advocates who are designated by the United Nations. FAO goodwill ambassadors are celebrity advocates of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that use their talent and fame to advocate for the organization.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations emblem with its Latin motto, Fiat Panis ("Let there be bread")

The Goodwill Ambassador Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has been in place since 1999. The main purpose of the programme is to increase public awareness and to disseminate information on issues related to food security and hunger.

FAO encourages its goodwill ambassadors to actively use their talents and influence, and to commit themselves personally and professionally, to assist the organization in raising public awareness of the urgent need to eradicate hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity, and in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.[1]

Past FAO ambassadors have included Celine Dion, Carl Lewis, Evo Morales, Youssou N'Dour and Susan Sarandon.

## Types of FAO goodwill ambassadors[edit]

FAO has three types of Goodwill Ambassadors:

* The FAO Global Goodwill Ambassador, who are worldwide known celebrities from the worlds of arts, sports, literature, sciences and other fields of public importance.
* The FAO Special Goodwill Ambassador, who are high-level personalities usually from the field of research or science, who have excelled in an area relevant to the one for which they become special Ambassadors.
* The FAO National Goodwill Ambassador, who are personalities with local appeal, the work of which they support mainly within the country of their nomination.

## Current FAO goodwill ambassadors[edit]

Current goodwill ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:

Name | Location | References | Notes

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Thomas Pesquet |  France | 2021 [2] |
Rodrigo Pacheco |  Ecuador | 2020 [3] |
Miriam Makeba |  South Africa | 1999 [4] |
Dee Dee Bridgewater |  United States | 1999 [5] |
Gina Lollobrigida |  Italy | 1999 [6] |
Rita Levi-Montalcini |  Italy | 1999 [7] |
Gong Li |  Singapore | 2000 [8] |
Youssou N'Dour |  Senegal | 2000 [9] |
Gilberto Gil |  Brazil | 2001 [10] |
Majida El Roumi |  Lebanon | 2001 [11] |
Albano Carrisi |  Italy | 2001 [12] |
Mory Kanté |  Guinea | 2001 [13] |
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie |  Bahamas | 2002 [14] |
Roberto Baggio |  Italy | 2002 [15] |
Massimo Ranieri |  Italy | 2002 [16] |
Dionne Warwick |  United States | 2002 [17] |
Italian Singers’ Soccer Team |  Italy | 2002 [18] |
Khaled |  Algeria | 2003 [19] |
Maná |  Mexico | 2003 [19] |
Noa |  Israel | 2003 [19] |
Justine Pasek |  Panama,  Poland | 2003 [19] |
Oumou Sangaré |  Mali | 2003[19] |
Raúl |  Spain | 2004 [20] |
Carla Fracci |  Italy | 2004 [21] |
Ronan Keating |  Ireland | 2005 [22] |
Beatrice Faumuina |  New Zealand | 2005 [23] |
Chucho Valdés |  Cuba | 2006 [24] |
María Gloria Penayo De Duarte |  Paraguay | 2006 [25] | Extraordinary Ambassador
Suzanne Mubarak |  Egypt | 2008 [26] |
Carl Lewis |  United States | 2009 [27] |
Anggun |  Indonesia,  France | 2009 [27] |
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández |  Dominican Republic | 2009 [27] |
Pierre Cardin |  France | 2009 [27] |
Fanny Lu |  Colombia | 2009 [27] |
Raoul Bova |  Italy | 2010 [28] |
Susan Sarandon |  United States | 2010 [28] |
Celine Dion |  Canada | 2010 [28] |
Lea Salonga |  Philippines | 2010 [28] |
Patrick Vieira |  France | 2010 [29] |
Jeremy Irons |  United Kingdom | 2011 [30] |
Evo Morales |  Bolivia | 2012[31] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Quinoa
Prince Laurent of Belgium |  Belgium | 2014 [32] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Queen Letizia of Spain |  Spain | 2015 [33] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Nutrition
Leyla Aliyeva |  Azerbaijan | 2015 [34] |
Abdelouahab Zaid |  United Arab Emirates | 2015 [35] |
Bharrat Jagdeo |  Guyana | 2015 [36] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Letsie III of Lesotho |  Lesotho | 2016 [37] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Nutrition
Joyce Boye |  Canada | 2016 [38] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Kadambot Siddique |  India | 2016 [38] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Maggie Habib |  Egypt | 2016 [38] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Jenny Chandler |  United Kingdom | 2016 [38] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Patricia Juárez Arango |  Mexico | 2016 [38] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Elizabeth Mpofu |  Zimbabwe | 2016 [38] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Carlo Petrini |  Italy | 2016 [39] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Guadalupe Valdez |  Dominican Republic | 2016 [39] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand |  Thailand | 2016 [39] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Kanayo F. Nwanze |  Nigeria | 2017 [39] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Darine El Khatib |  Lebanon | 2017 [39] | Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Katsuhiro Nakamura |  Japan | 2017 [40] |
Hiroko Kuniya |  Japan | 2017 [40] |
Rodrigo Pacheco |  Ecuador | 2020 [3] |

## See also[edit]

* Goodwill Ambassador
* FAO Goodwill Ambassador
* UNDP Goodwill Ambassador
* UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
* UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
* UNODC Goodwill Ambassador
* UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
* UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador
* UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
* WFP Goodwill Ambassador
* WHO Goodwill Ambassador

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## External links[edit]

* Food and Agriculture Organization