UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of
UNESCO and utilize their talent or fame to spread the UNESCO ideals.
The following is a list of Goodwill Ambassadors along with the projects and activities they support.
- Antonio Abreu - Peace through the music
- Alicia Alonso - Promotion of ballet (Intangible Program Inheritance)
- Patrick Baudry - Education of the youth
- Pierre Berge - HIV/AIDS issues, Cultural Heritage
- Grace Bumbry - Project of UNESCO "Road of slavery"
- Montserrat Caballé - Fundraising for children in distress and victims of war
- Pierre Cardin -
- Claudia Cardinale - Promotion of Women's Rights, especially women in the Mediterranean
- Marin Constantin - Music and World Heritage
- Catherine Deneuve - Protection of Film Heritage and Cultural Heritage
- Cheick Modibo Diarra - Promotion of education, especially in sciences, sustainable development in Africa
- Miguel Angel Estrella - Promotion of Culture of Peace and Tolerance through Music
- Vigdis Finnbogadottir - Promotion of linguistic diversity, Women's right and Education
- Princess Firyal - Humanitarian action, Refugees, World Heritage, Education of street children, HIV/AIDS prevention, Women's Rights, especially Arab women
- Ivry Gitlis - Support of Education and Culture of Peace and Tolerance
- Bahia Hariri - Preservation of World Heritage, Education, Culture, the Environment, Women's Rights and sustainable development in the Arab world
- Ikuo Hirayama - Safeguarding of the world cultural heritage by the rescue of the Sites and Monuments in danger
- Jean Michel Jarre - Youth and Tolerance, Defense of the world Heritage and the environment
- Omer Zülfü Livaneli - Peace and Tolerance through the music and the promotion of the humans right
- Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg - Main Area of Interest: Education, Woman's Rights, Microfinance and Campaign against poverty
- Lily Marinho - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Poverty
- Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Protection of Rights of Indigenous People
- Lalla Meryem of Morocco - Protection of Childhood and Women's Rights
- Kitín Muńoz - Protection and Promotion of Indigenous Culture and environment
- Ute-Henriette Ohoven - (UNESCO Special Ambassador for the Education of Children in Need) - Education, UNESCO Programme Children in Need
- Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé) - Promotion of sports as a means of alleviating poverty and drug use
- Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Children and innocent victims of war
- Renzo Piano - Protection and Rehabilitation of World Heritage
- Susana Rinaldi - Street Children, Culture of Peace
- Mstislav Rostropovitch - Art Education, Humanitarianism, Cultural Heritage
- Sheikh Ghassan I. Shaker - Fundraising, children and women in need and victims of war, education, microfinance
- Madanjeet Singh - Support to Sustainable Development through Communication and Information in South Asia, through projects of micro-credit, communication and information, Prix Madanjeet SINGH - UNESCO for the tolerance
- Wole Soyinka - Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, African Culture
- Zurab Tsereteli - Cultural and artistic projects
- Giancarlo Elia Valori - Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
- Marianna Vardinoyannis - Protection of Childhood and promotion of cultural olympiads, humanitarian relief to war victims
- Julio Werthein - Education, Culture, Environment