FAO Goodwill Ambassador

FAO has three types of Goodwill Ambassadors:

• The FAO Global Goodwill Ambassadors, who are worldwide known celebrities from the worlds of arts, royalty, sports, literature, sciences and other fields of public importance.
• The FAO Special Goodwill Ambassadors, who are high-level institutional authorities and 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. Special Ambassadors support FAO directly in raising awareness of specific issues the Organization is advocating (i.e. nutrition, International Years).
• The FAO National Goodwill Ambassadors, who are personalities with local appeal, the work of which they support mainly within the country of their nomination.

FAO Goodwill Ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:

Name	Location	References	Notes
Miriam Makeba	South Africa	1999 [2]
Dee Dee Bridgewater	United States	1999 [3]
Gina Lollobrigida	Italy	1999 [4]
Rita Levi-Montalcini	Italy	1999 [5]
Gong Li	Singapore	2000 [6]
Youssou N'Dour	Senegal	2000 [7]
Gilberto Gil	Brazil	2001 [8]
Majida El Roumi	Lebanon	2001 [9]
Albano Carrisi	Italy	2001 [10]
Mory Kanté	Guinea	2001 [11]
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	2002 [12]
Roberto Baggio	Italy	2002 [13]
Massimo Ranieri	Italy	2002 [14]
Dionne Warwick	United States	2002 [15]
Italian Singers’ Soccer Team	Italy	2002 [16]
Khaled	Algeria	2003 [17]
Maná	Mexico	2003 [17]
Noa	Israel	2003 [17]
Justine Pasek	Panama,  Poland	2003 [17]
Oumou Sangaré	Mali	2003[17]
Raúl	Spain	2004 [18]
Carla Fracci	Italy	2004 [19]
Ronan Keating	Ireland	2005 [20]
Beatrice Faumuina	New Zealand	2005 [21]
Chucho Valdés	Cuba	2006 [22]
María Gloria Penayo De Duarte	Paraguay	2006 [23]	Extraordinary Ambassador
Suzanne Mubarak	Egypt	2008 [24]
Carl Lewis	United States	2009 [25]
Anggun	Indonesia,  France	2009 [25]
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández	Dominican Republic	2009 [25]
Pierre Cardin	France	2009 [25]
Fanny Lu	Colombia	2009 [25]
Raoul Bova	Italy	2010 [26]
Susan Sarandon	United States	2010 [26]
Celine Dion	Canada	2010 [26]
Lea Salonga	Philippines	2010 [26]
Patrick Vieira	France	2010 [27]
Jeremy Irons	United Kingdom	2011 [28]
Evo Morales	Bolivia	2012[29]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Quinoa
Prince Laurent of Belgium	Belgium	2014 [30]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Queen Letizia of Spain	Spain	2015 [31]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Nutrition
Leyla Aliyeva	Azerbaijan	2015 [32]
Abdelouahab Zaid	United Arab Emirates	2015 [33]
Bharrat Jagdeo	Guyana	2015 [34]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment
Letsie III of Lesotho	Lesotho	2016 [35]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Nutrition
Joyce Boye	Canada	2016 [36]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Kadambot Siddique	India	2016 [36]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Maggie Habib	Egypt	2016 [36]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Jenny Chandler	United Kingdom	2016 [36]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Patricia Juárez Arango	Mexico	2016 [36]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Elizabeth Mpofu	Zimbabwe	2016 [36]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses
Carlo Petrini	Italy	2016 [37]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Guadalupe Valdez	Dominican Republic	2016 [37]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand	Thailand	2016 [37]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Kanayo F. Nwanze	Nigeria	2017 [37]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Darine El Khatib	Lebanon	2017 [37]	Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger
Katsuhiro Nakamura	Japan	2017 [38]
Hiroko Kuniya	Japan	2017 [38]

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