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.
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Current UNHCR goodwill ambassadors
Current goodwill ambassadors and the year they were appointed:
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.
Angelina Jolie became a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. In 2012, she was appointed the Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Past ambassadors
Kris Aquino
Giorgio Armani
Đorđe Balašević
Richard Burton
Yao Chen
Nazia Hassan
Justus Frantz
Udo Jürgens
Lady Antebellum
Sophia Loren
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
James Mason
Riccardo Muti
Arja Saijonmaa
The Schürzenjäger
Jack Thompson
Duraid Lahham