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 who use their talent and fame to advocate for the organization.

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]

Types of FAO Goodwill Ambassadors

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

Current goodwill ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:

NameLocationReferencesNotes
Queen LetiziaSpain2015Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition
King Letsie IIILesotho2016Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition
Darine El-KhatibLebanon2017Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Near East and North Africa
Princess Basma bint AliJordan2016Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Near East and North Africa
Princess Maha Chakri SirindhornThailand2016Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific
Katsuhiro NakamuraJapan2017National Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific
Hiroko KuniyaJapan2017National Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific
Diarmuid GavinIreland2022National Goodwill Ambassador for Europe
Rodrigo PachecoEcuador2022National Goodwill Ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean

Former FAO Goodwill Ambassadors

Former goodwill ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:

NameLocationReferencesNotes
Thomas PesquetFrance2021 [2]
Miriam MakebaSouth Africa1999 [3]
Dee Dee BridgewaterUnited States1999 [4]
Gina LollobrigidaItaly1999 [5]
Rita Levi-MontalciniItaly1999 [6]
Gong LiSingapore2000 [7]
Youssou N'DourSenegal2000 [8]
Gilberto GilBrazil2001 [9]
Majida El RoumiLebanon2001 [10]
Albano CarrisiItaly2001 [11]
Mory KantéGuinea2001 [12]
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzieBahamas2002 [13]
Roberto BaggioItaly2002 [14]
Massimo RanieriItaly2002 [15]
Dionne WarwickUnited States2002 [16]
Italian Singers’ Soccer TeamItaly2002 [17]
KhaledAlgeria2003 [18]
ManáMexico2003 [18]
NoaIsrael2003 [18]
Justine PasekPanama, Poland2003 [18]
Oumou SangaréMali2003[18]
RaúlSpain2004 [19]
Carla FracciItaly2004 [20]
Ronan KeatingIreland2005 [21]
Beatrice FaumuinaNew Zealand2005 [22]
Chucho ValdésCuba2006 [23]
María Gloria Penayo De DuarteParaguay2006 [24]Extraordinary Ambassador
Suzanne MubarakEgypt2008 [25]
Carl LewisUnited States2009 [26]
AnggunIndonesia, France2009 [26]
Margarita Cedeño de FernándezDominican Republic2009 [26]
Pierre CardinFrance2009 [26]
Fanny LuColombia2009 [26]
Raoul BovaItaly2010 [27]
Susan SarandonUnited States2010 [27]
Celine DionCanada2010 [27]
Lea SalongaPhilippines2010 [27]
Patrick VieiraFrance2010 [28]
Jeremy IronsUK2011 [29]
Evo MoralesBolivia2012[30]Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Quinoa
Prince Laurent of BelgiumBelgium2014 [31]Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Leyla AliyevaAzerbaijan2015 [32]
Abdelouahab ZaidUnited Arab Emirates2015 [33]
Bharrat JagdeoGuyana2015 [34]Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Joyce BoyeCanada2016 [35]Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Kadambot SiddiqueIndia2016 [35]Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Maggie HabibEgypt2016 [35]Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Jenny ChandlerUK2016 [35]Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Patricia Juárez ArangoMexico2016 [35]Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Elizabeth MpofuZimbabwe2016 [35]Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Carlo PetriniItaly2016 [36]Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Guadalupe ValdezDominican Republic2016 [36]Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Kanayo F. NwanzeNigeria2017 [36]Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger

See also

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