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