WHO Goodwill Ambassadors

Types and Styles of Specialized Agency Titles

Collectively they are all United Nations goodwill ambassadors, each is designated with a legal title by each individual agency such as:

• FAO Goodwill Ambassador, official title of a goodwill ambassador advocating for the Food and Agricultural Organization

• ILO Goodwill Ambassador, public figure or advocate of the International Labour Organization

• IMO Goodwill Ambassador, or Goodwill Maritime Ambassador, is an expert or advocate of the International Maritime Organization

• IOM Goodwill Ambassador, strategic ally promoting the mandate of the International Organization on Migration

• MP Goodwill Ambassador, Mountain Partnership nominates well-known personalities to champion the cause of sustainable mountain development

• Stop TB Goodwill Ambassador, advocate for the UN Special Envoy of the UN Partnership to Stop Tuberculosis

• UN-Habitat Goodwill Ambassador, advocate of United Nations Habitat commission (urban sustainability)

• UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, celebrity advocate for UN Women (UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women)

• UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, celebrity advocate of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

• UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, prominent individual that serves the mission of the United Nations Development Programme

• UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, public figure or advocate of the United Nations Environmental Programme

• UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, public figure that advocates for UNESCO

• UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, celebrity advocate of the United Nations Population Fund mission

• UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, celebrity advocate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees'

• UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, local, regional and internationally known public figure that is selected to promote the mission of UNICEF

• UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador, public figure or expert that advocates for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization mission

• UNODC Goodwill Ambassador, celebrity advocate of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

• WFP Goodwill Ambassador, public figure or advocate of the United Nations World Food Programme

• WHO Goodwill Ambassador, a celebrity advocate of the World Health Organization

There are other official title designations and forms of presentation that are used by the United Nations depending on the scope of their public relations campaigns, for example in 2021 the term "UNICEF's women Goodwill Ambassadors" appeared for a UNICEF campaign headline for Afghanistan, however this does not change the official title of individual ambassadors. Since 1999, some of the United Nations Diplomatic Corps and United Nations Association Chapters have referred to their ambassadors as Global Goodwill Ambassador or National Goodwill Ambassador of _________. The new guideline of a 3-6 letter alpha code preceding the "Goodwill Ambassador" title makes each ambassador unique with their proper name, disambiguates different UN departments, projects and programs as well as removes assumptions that fraudsters depend on.