UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador

UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador is an official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status and job description assigned to those goodwill ambassadors and advocates who are designated by the United Nations. UNIDO goodwill ambassadors are expert advocates of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and use their abilities and experience to advocate for sustainable industrial development in developing countries. Other United Nations goodwill ambassador programs usually take a celebrity approach.[1]

This article is about the UNIDO goodwill ambassador title. For other uses, see Goodwill ambassador (disambiguation).

Current UNIDO goodwill ambassadors

Current listed and supporting goodwill ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:[2]

TimeAmbassadorCountryProfession
2019 Elisabetta Lattanzio Illy  Italy photographer and journalist
2018 Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca  Malta former President of the Republic of Malta
2018 Veronika Peshkova  Russia executive Director of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Centre
2015 Janne Vangen Solheim  Norway Chief Executive Officer of the Janusfabrikken AS
2014 Helen Hai  China CEO of the Made in Africa Initiative
2014 Marc Van Montagu  Belgium pioneer of plant molecular biology
2011 Marcos Pontes  Brazil Brazil’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation
2005 Reinosuke Hara  Japan representative of Hayama Capital Inc.
2005 Peter Sutherland  Ireland industrialist and politician
2005 Mario Baccini  Italy politician and President of the Italian Microcredit Institute
2004 Mamadou Mansour Cama  Senegal businessman

See also


References
  1. "Goodwill Ambassadors | UNIDO". saro.org.za. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  2. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (2021-03-23). "UNIDO Goodwill Ambassadors". UNIDO. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
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