UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

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UNHCR 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. UNHCR goodwill ambassadors are celebrity representatives of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) who use their talent and fame to advocate for refugees.

Current UNHCR goodwill ambassadors

Current goodwill ambassadors and the year they were appointed:

Time Ambassador Country Profession
2021 Gugu Mbatha-Raw File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom actress[1]
2021 Alphonso Davies File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada footballer[2]
2021 Maya Ghazal Template:Flagcountry refugee and pilot [3]
2021 Anita Rani Template:Flagcountry journalist and broadcaster[4]
2020 Yiech Pur Biel File:Flag of South Sudan.svg South Sudan Olympic athlete[5]
2020 Kat Graham Template:Flagcountry singer and actress
2020 Manizha Sangin File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia singer and songwriter[6]
2020 Nomzamo Mbatha File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Actress, Humanitarian, TV Presenter
2019 Atom Araullo File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines journalist[7][8]
2019 Mahira Khan Template:Flagcountry actress[9]
2018 Ben Stiller Template:Flagcountry actor
2017 Praya Lundberg Template:Flagcountry model and actress
2017 Miyavi Template:Flagcountry musician
2017 Neil Gaiman Template:Flagcountry writer
2017 Yusra Mardini Template:Flagcountry swimmer
2017 Kristin Davis Template:Flagcountry actor
2017 David Morrissey Template:Flagcountry actor
2017 Alessandro Gassman Template:Flagcountry actor
2017 Iskui Abalyan Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry singer
2017 Yasmine Salhi Template:Flagcountry artiste
2016 Cate Blanchett Template:Flagcountry actor
2016 John Abraham Template:Flagcountry actor
2015 Jung Woo-sung Template:Flagcountry actor
2015 Ger Duany Template:Flagcountry actor and model
2015 Rokia Traore Template:Flagcountry singer-songwriter
2015 Sheikha Rima al-Sabah Template:Flagcountry philanthropist and former journalist
2013 Aidos Sagat Template:Flagcountry singer
2013 Alek Wek Template:Flagcountry supermodel
2013 Khaled Hosseini Template:Flagcountry writer
2013 Yao Chen Template:Flagcountry actor
2007 Jesús Vázquez Template:Flagcountry TV presenter
2007 Muazzez Ersoy Template:Flagcountry singer
2006 George Dalaras Template:Flagcountry singer
2006 Osvaldo Laport Template:Flagcountry actor
2003 Julien Clerc Template:Flagcountry singer
2000 Adel Emam Template:Flagcountry actor
1987 Barbara Hendricks Template:Flagcountry classical singer

Other positions

  • Barbara Hendricks became a Goodwill Ambassador in 1987. She became the first Honorary Lifetime Goodwill Ambassador in 2002, the only person to hold this title.[10]
  • Angelina Jolie became a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. In 2012, she was appointed the Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.[11]

Past ambassadors

See also

References

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