UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

UN Special Ambassadors are celebrities who use their fame to promote the concerns of the UN specialized agencies.

UNESCO

  • José Antonio Abreu, Music
  • Alicia Alonso, Ballet
  • Patrick Baudry, education of youth
  • Pierre Bergé, AIDS, Heritage
  • Grace Bumbry
  • Montserrat Caballé
  • Pierre Cardin
  • Claudia Cardinale
  • Marin Constantin
  • Catherine Deneuve
  • Cheick Modibo Diarra
  • Miguel Ángel Estrella
  • Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
  • Princess Firyal
  • Ivri Gitlis
  • Danny Glover
  • Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
  • Bahiya al -Hariri
  • Ikuo Hirayama
  • Michael Schumacher
  • Jean Michel Jarre
  • Antonio Castro Leal
  • Zülfü Livaneli
  • Jean Malaurie
  • Maria Teresa of Luxembourg
  • Lily Marinho
  • Rigoberta Menchú Tum
  • Lalla Meryem of Morocco
  • KITin Muñoz
  • Ute -Henriette Ohoven
  • Pele
  • Phan Thi Kim Phúc
  • Renzo Piano
  • Susana Rinaldi
  • Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Ghassan I. Shaker
  • Madanjeet Singh
  • Wole Soyinka
  • Peter Ustinov
  • Giancarlo Elia Valori
  • Marianna Vardinoyannis
  • Julio Werthein
  • Mehriban Arif Qizi Əliyeva
  • Zurab Tsereteli

UNFPA

  • Yuko Arimori for Japan
  • Linda Gray
  • Chinua Achebe for Nigeria ( 1999)
  • Mpule Kwelagobe for South Africa (2000)
  • Mikko Kuustonen for Finland ( 1998)
  • Lara Dutta for India (2001)
  • Catarina Furtado for Portugal
  • Mary Banotti for Ireland ( 1999)
  • Alfred Biolek for Germany (2001)
  • Safia El- Emary for Arabia
  • Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland (1999)
  • Goedele Liekens for Belgium
  • Jamal Soliman for Syria ( 1998)
  • Shabana Azmi for India ( 1998)
  • Kattis Ahlström for Sweden
  • Hanne - Vibeke Holst for Denmark
  • Princess Basma Bint Talal
  • Magenta Devine UK
  • Bui Nakhirunkanok for Thailand
  • Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck of Bhutan
  • Lupita Jones of Mexico (2000)
  • Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Elsa Zylberstein for France ( 2001)
  • Rosy Senanayake of Sri Lanka ( 1998)
  • Geri Halliwell for Great Britain ( 1998)
  • Chea Samnang of Cambodia ( 2000)
  • Abdur Razzak for Bangladesh

UNHCR

UNIDO

  • Jorge Alberto Blanco Villegas 2004
  • Mamadou Mansour Cama 2004
  • Sir Ronald Grierson 2004
  • Long Yongtu 2004
  • Peter Sutherland 2005

WHO

  • Martina Hingis for the immunization program since 1997
  • Mia Farrow for the global eradication of polio
  • Tracy Trinita for not smoking
  • Liya Kebede on child health, since 2005
  • Sylvie Vartan on child health, since 2005

Other

  • Waris Dirie: Genital mutilation
  • Abba Eban
  • Benon Sevan
  • Alfred Biolek: the AIDS situation in Africa
  • Lakhdar Brahimi: Iraq
  • Maurice Strong
  • James Baker
  • Dieter Boden: Abkhazia conflict
  • Razali Ismail: Burma
  • Terje Rød - Larsen for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559
  • Razali Ismail
  • Yasushi Akashi: Bosnia
  • Thomas Hammarberg
  • Roland Schäfer: Health
  • Mr. De Soto
  • Michael Steiner: Kosovo
  • John Manz: Western Sahara
  • Benon Sevan
  • Adolf Ogi: Sports
  • Jamsheed Marker: East Timor

UNICEF

→ see List of UNICEF ambassador

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