FAO Goodwill Ambassador

{{Short description|Celebrity advocate of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's mission}}

{{About|the FAO goodwill ambassador title|other uses|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. Image:FAO logo.svg 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.{{Cite web|title=The Goodwill Ambassadors of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|url=http://www.fao.org/3/a1513e/a1513e00.htm|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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:

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!Location

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Queen Letizia

|{{Flagcountry|Spain}}

|2015

|Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition

King Letsie III

|{{Flagcountry|Lesotho}}

|2016

|Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition

Darine El-Khatib

|{{Flagcountry|Lebanon}}

|2017

|Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Near East and North Africa

Princess Basma bint Ali

|{{Flagcountry|Jordan}}

|2016

|Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Near East and North Africa

Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

|{{Flagcountry|Thailand}}

|2016

|Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific

Katsuhiro Nakamura

|{{Flagcountry|Japan}}

|2017

|National Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific

Hiroko Kuniya

|{{Flagcountry|Japan}}

|2017

|National Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific

Diarmuid Gavin

|{{Flagcountry|Ireland}}

|2022

|National Goodwill Ambassador for Europe

Rodrigo Pacheco

|{{Flagcountry|Ecuador}}

|2022

|National Goodwill Ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean

Former FAO Goodwill Ambassadors

Former goodwill ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:

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Thomas Pesquet{{flagcountry|France}}2021 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1393472/icode/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|access-date=2021-04-12|archive-date=2021-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509175222/http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1393472/icode/|url-status=dead}}

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Miriam Makeba{{flagcountry|South Africa}}1999 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/makeba_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Dee Dee Bridgewater{{flagcountry|USA}}1999 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/bridgewater_en.htm<|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Gina Lollobrigida{{flagcountry|Italy}}1999 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/lollobrigida_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Rita Levi-Montalcini{{flagcountry|Italy}}1999 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/montalcini_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Gong Li{{flagcountry|Singapore}}2000 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/li_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Youssou N'Dour{{flagcountry|Senegal}}2000 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/nDour_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Gilberto Gil{{flagcountry|Brazil}}2001 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/gil_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Majida El Roumi{{flagcountry|Lebanon}}2001 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/alRoumi_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Albano Carrisi{{flagcountry|Italy}}2001 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/carrisi_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Mory Kanté{{flagcountry|Guinea}}2001 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/kante_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie{{flagcountry|Bahamas}}2002 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/ferguson_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Roberto Baggio{{flagcountry|Italy}}2002 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/baggio_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Massimo Ranieri{{flagcountry|Italy}}2002 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/ranieri_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Dionne Warwick{{flagcountry|USA}}2002 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/warwick_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Italian Singers’ Soccer Team{{flagcountry|Italy}}2002 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/TIS_SoccerTeam_en.htm|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Khaled{{flagcountry|Algeria}}2003 {{cite web| url = http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/23719-en.html/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040203225736/http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/23719-en.html| archive-date = 2004-02-03| title = FAO : Five more international celebrities named as FAO goodwill ambassadors}}

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Maná{{flagcountry|Mexico}}2003

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Noa{{flagcountry|Israel}}2003

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Justine Pasek{{flagcountry|Panama}}, {{flagcountry|Poland}}2003

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Oumou Sangaré{{flagcountry|Mali}}2003

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Raúl{{flagcountry|Spain}}2004 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2004/51279/index.html|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}

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Carla Fracci{{flagcountry|Italy}}2004 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-carlafracci/en/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233206/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-carlafracci/en/|archive-date=2009-11-10}}

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Ronan Keating{{flagcountry|Ireland}}2005 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-ronankeating/en/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110232833/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-ronankeating/en/|archive-date=2009-11-10}}

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Beatrice Faumuina{{flagcountry|New Zealand}}2005 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-beatricefaumuina/en/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233519/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-beatricefaumuina/en/|archive-date=2009-11-10}}

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Chucho Valdés{{flagcountry|Cuba}}2006 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-chuchovaldes/en/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233548/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-chuchovaldes/en/|archive-date=2009-11-10}}

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María Gloria Penayo De Duarte{{flagcountry|Paraguay}}2006 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-mariagloriapenayo/en/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233316/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-mariagloriapenayo/en/|archive-date=2009-11-10}}Extraordinary Ambassador
Suzanne Mubarak{{flagcountry|Egypt}}2008 {{cite web |last1=Warnock |first1=Caroline |title=Suzanne Mubarak, Hosni Mubarek's Wife: 5 Fast Facts |url=https://heavy.com/news/2020/02/suzanne-mubarek-hosni-mubarek-wife/ |website=Heavy.com |accessdate=10 March 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310112859/https://heavy.com/news/2020/02/suzanne-mubarek-hosni-mubarek-wife/ |archivedate=10 March 2020 |language=en |date=25 February 2020}}

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Carl Lewis{{flagcountry|USA}}2009

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Anggun{{flagcountry|Indonesia}}, {{flagcountry|France}}2009 {{Cite web|url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2009/09/312832-five-new-un-goodwill-ambassadors-named-help-combat-hunger|title = Five new UN Goodwill Ambassadors named to help combat hunger|date = 17 September 2009}}

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Margarita Cedeño de Fernández{{flagcountry|Dominican Republic}}2009

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Pierre Cardin{{flagcountry|France}}2009

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Fanny Lu{{flagcountry|Colombia}}2009

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Raoul Bova{{flagcountry|Italy}}2010

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Susan Sarandon{{flagcountry|USA}}2010

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Celine Dion{{flagcountry|Canada}}2010 {{Cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/46432/icode/|title=FAO - News Article: FAO appoints four new Goodwill Ambassadors|access-date=2017-02-10|archive-date=2021-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126214056/http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/46432/icode/|url-status=dead}}

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Lea Salonga{{flagcountry|Philippines}}2010

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Patrick Vieira{{flagcountry|France}}2010 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/news/story/pt/item/42341/icode/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|access-date=2018-04-10|archive-date=2018-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614200156/http://www.fao.org/news/story/pt/item/42341/icode/|url-status=dead}}

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Jeremy Irons{{flagcountry|UK}}2011 {{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-15344164/jeremy-irons-takes-on-un-world-food-ambassador-role|title = Irons accepts food ambassador role|work = BBC News}}

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Evo Morales{{flagcountry|Bolivia}}2012{{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/148887/icode/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|access-date=2018-04-10|archive-date=2020-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808071505/http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/148887/icode/|url-status=dead}}Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Quinoa
Prince Laurent of Belgium{{flagcountry|Belgium}}2014 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/members-gateway/news/detail/en/c/236984/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization}}Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Leyla Aliyeva{{flagcountry|Azerbaijan}}2015 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/director-general/newsroom/news/detail/en/c/326998/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|access-date=2018-04-10|archive-date=2018-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615085013/http://www.fao.org/director-general/newsroom/news/detail/en/c/326998/|url-status=dead}}

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Abdelouahab Zaid{{flagcountry|UAE}}2015 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/director-general/newsroom/news/detail/en/c/358464/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|access-date=2018-04-10|archive-date=2018-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615033040/http://www.fao.org/director-general/newsroom/news/detail/en/c/358464/|url-status=dead}}

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Bharrat Jagdeo{{flagcountry|Guyana}}2015 {{Cite web|title=FAO Website|url=http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/cofo/daily-highlights/thursday-friday/en/|website=Food and Agriculture Organization|access-date=2018-04-10|archive-date=2018-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614203115/http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/cofo/daily-highlights/thursday-friday/en/|url-status=dead}}Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Joyce Boye{{flagcountry|Canada}}2016 {{Cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/pulses-2016/about/special-ambassadors/en/|title=Special ambassadors | 2016 International Year of Pulses}}Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Kadambot Siddique{{flagcountry|India}}2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Maggie Habib{{flagcountry|Egypt}}2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Jenny Chandler{{flagcountry|UK}}2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Patricia Juárez Arango{{flagcountry|Mexico}}2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Elizabeth Mpofu{{flagcountry|Zimbabwe}}2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Carlo Petrini{{flagcountry|Italy}}2016 {{Cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4484/icode/|title=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Webcast}}Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Guadalupe Valdez{{flagcountry|Dominican Republic}}2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Kanayo F. Nwanze{{flagcountry|Nigeria}}2017 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger

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