UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador
# 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.

## Current UNIDO goodwill ambassadors

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

| Time | Ambassador | Country | Profession |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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 |
