FAO Goodwill Ambassador
Introduction '''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. 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 Thomas Pesquet    2021  Rodrigo Pacheco    2020  Miriam Makeba    1999  Dee Dee Bridgewater    1999  Gina Lollobrigida    1999  Rita Levi-Montalcini    1999  Gong Li    2000  Youssou N'Dour    2000  Gilberto Gil    2001  Majida El Roumi    2001  Albano Carrisi    2001  Mory Kanté    2001  Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie    2002  Roberto Baggio     2002  Massimo Ranieri     2002  Dionne Warwick    2002  Italian Singers’ Soccer Team     2002  Khaled     2003  Maná     2003  Noa    2003  Justine Pasek  ,   2003  Oumou Sangaré     2003 Raúl     2004  Carla Fracci     2004  Ronan Keating     2005  Beatrice Faumuina     2005  Chucho Valdés     2006  María Gloria Penayo De Duarte     2006 Extraordinary Ambassador Suzanne Mubarak    2008  Carl Lewis     2009  Anggun  ,   2009  Margarita Cedeño de Fernández     2009  Pierre Cardin     2009  Fanny Lu     2009  Raoul Bova     2010  Susan Sarandon     2010  Celine Dion     2010  Lea Salonga     2010  Patrick Vieira     2010  Jeremy Irons     2011  Evo Morales     2012  Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Quinoa  Prince Laurent of Belgium     2014 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment Queen Letizia of Spain     2015   Special Ambassador to the FAO for Nutrition Leyla Aliyeva     2015  Abdelouahab Zaid     2015  Bharrat Jagdeo     2015  Special Ambassador to the FAO for Forests and the Environment Letsie III of Lesotho     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for Nutrition Joyce Boye     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses Kadambot Siddique     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses Maggie Habib     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses Jenny Chandler     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses Patricia Juárez Arango     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses Elizabeth Mpofu     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for the International Year of Pulses Carlo Petrini     2016 Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger Guadalupe Valdez     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand     2016  Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger Kanayo F. Nwanze     2017  Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger Darine El Khatib     2017  Special Ambassador to the FAO for Zero Hunger Katsuhiro Nakamura     2017  Hiroko Kuniya     2017  Rodrigo Pacheco    2020
See also * Goodwill Ambassador* FAO Goodwill Ambassador* UNDP Goodwill Ambassador* UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador* UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador* UNODC Goodwill Ambassador* UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador* UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador* UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador* WFP Goodwill Ambassador* WHO Goodwill Ambassador
References
External links * Food and Agriculture Organization