FAO Goodwill Ambassador

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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.

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
Her Majesty Queen Letizia of Spain  Spain 2015 Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition
His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho  Lesotho 2016 Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition
Darine El-Khatib  Lebanon 2017 Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Near East and North Africa
Her Royal Highness Princess Basma bint Ali of Jordan  Jordan 2016 Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Near East and North Africa
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand  Thailand 2016 Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific
Katsuhiro Nakamura  Japan 2017 National Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific
Hiroko Kuniya  Japan 2017 National Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific
Diarmuid Gavin  Ireland 2022 National Goodwill Ambassador for Europe
Rodrigo Pacheco  Ecuador 2022 National Goodwill Ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean

Former FAO Goodwill Ambassadors

Former goodwill ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:

Name Location References Notes
Thomas Pesquet  France 2021
Miriam Makeba  South Africa 1999
Dee Dee Bridgewater  United States 1999
Gina Lollobrigida  Italy 1999
Rita Levi-Montalcini  Italy 1999
Gong Li  Singapore 2000
Youssou N'Dour  Senegal 2000
Gilberto Gil  Brazil 2001
Majida El Roumi  Lebanon 2001
Albano Carrisi  Italy 2001
Mory Kanté  Guinea 2001
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie  Bahamas 2002
Roberto Baggio  Italy 2002
Massimo Ranieri  Italy 2002
Dionne Warwick  United States 2002
Italian Singers’ Soccer Team  Italy 2002
Khaled  Algeria 2003
Maná  Mexico 2003
Noa  Israel 2003
Justine Pasek  Panama,  Poland 2003
Oumou Sangaré  Mali 2003
Raúl  Spain 2004
Carla Fracci  Italy 2004
Ronan Keating  Ireland 2005
Beatrice Faumuina  New Zealand 2005
Chucho Valdés  Cuba 2006
María Gloria Penayo De Duarte  Paraguay 2006 Extraordinary Ambassador
Suzanne Mubarak  Egypt 2008
Carl Lewis  United States 2009
Anggun  Indonesia,  France 2009
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández  Dominican Republic 2009
Pierre Cardin  France 2009
Fanny Lu  Colombia 2009
Raoul Bova  Italy 2010
Susan Sarandon  United States 2010
Celine Dion  Canada 2010
Lea Salonga  Philippines 2010
Patrick Vieira  France 2010
Jeremy Irons  United Kingdom 2011
Evo Morales  Bolivia 2012 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Quinoa
Prince Laurent of Belgium  Belgium 2014 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Leyla Aliyeva  Azerbaijan 2015
Abdelouahab Zaid  United Arab Emirates 2015
Bharrat Jagdeo  Guyana 2015 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Joyce Boye  Canada 2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Kadambot Siddique  India 2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Maggie Habib  Egypt 2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Jenny Chandler  United Kingdom 2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Patricia Juárez Arango  Mexico 2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Elizabeth Mpofu  Zimbabwe 2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Carlo Petrini  Italy 2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Guadalupe Valdez  Dominican Republic 2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Kanayo F. Nwanze  Nigeria 2017 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger

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