List of UN special envoy
UN Special Envoy ( Goodwill Ambassadors ) are celebrities who use their fame to the concerns of the UN specialized agencies to advertise.
UNESCO
- José Antonio Abreu , music
- Alicia Alonso , ballet
- Patrick Baudry , Education of the Young
- Pierre Bergé , AIDS, cultural 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 sSchumacher
- Jean Michel Jarre
- Wet David Khalili
- Antonio Castro Leal
- Zülfü Livaneli
- Jean Malaurie
- Denis Mazujew
- Maria Teresa of Luxembourg
- Lily Marinho
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum
- Lalla Meryem of Morocco
- Kitin Muñoz
- Ute-Henriette Ohoven
- Pelé
- Phan Thị 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 Əliyeva
- Zurab Tsereteli
- Sebastião Salgado
UNFPA
- Yūko 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 for 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 for Great Britain
- Bui Nakhirunkanok for Thailand
- Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck for Bhutan
- Lupita Jones for Mexico (2000)
- Wendy Fitzwilliam for Trinidad and Tobago
- Elsa Zylberstein for France (2001)
- Rosy Senanayake for Sri Lanka (1998)
- Geri Halliwell for Great Britain (1998)
- Chea Samnang for Cambodia (2000)
- Abdur Razzak for Bangladesh
UNHCR
UN Special Envoy for Refugees for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
- 1987: Barbara Hendricks
- 2000: Adel Imam
- 2001: Angelina Jolie
- 2002: Giorgio Armani
- 2003: Julien Clerc
- 2017: Yusra Mardini
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 global polio eradication
- Tracy Trinita for quitting smoking
- Liya Kebede for Child Health, since 2005
- Sylvie Vartan for Child Health, since 2005
- Robert Mugabe for Health Care and Health Promotion, undone after criticism in October 2017
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
- Yasushi Akashi : Bosnia
- Thomas Hammarberg
- Roland Schäfer : Health
- Gerd Sonnleitner : rural agriculture
- Mr. De Soto
- Michael Steiner : Kosovo
- Johannes Manz : Western Sahara
- Benon Sevan
- Adolf Ogi : Sport
- Jamsheed marker : for East Timor
UNICEF
→ see list of UNICEF ambassadors
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Definition and mandate of special ambassadors on the UNESCO website