FAO Goodwill Ambassador

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FAO Goodwill Ambassador is an official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status and job description assigned to those 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[]

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:

Name Location References Notes
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[]

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