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UNESCO Special Envoy

UNESCO Special Envoys are personalities associated with various UNESCO programmes and projects who help to spread UNESCO’s message worldwide through their professional activities and their personal charisma.

The following is a list of UNESCO Special Envoys along with the position they are currently assuming:

  • Swiss Metin Arditi, UNESCO Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Intercultural Dialogue since 2014,
  • FRA Beate Klarsfeld and Serge Klarsfeld, UNESCO Honorary Ambassadors and Special Envoys for Education about the History of Holocaust and Genocide Prevention since October 2015,
  • Qatar Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education since January 2003,
  • USA Judith Pisar, UNESCO Special Envoy for Cultural Diplomacy since June 2017,
  • RUS Mintimer Shaimiev, UNESCO Special Envoy for Interculural Dialogue since August 2017,
  • USA Forest Whitaker, UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation since June 2011,
  • KEN Mwai Kibaki, UNESCO Special Envoy for water in Africa since April 2016,
  • NED Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, UNESCO Special Envoy on Literacy for Development since 2009,
  • PRC Peng Liyuan, UNESCO Special Envoy for the Advancement of Girl's and Women’s Education since March 2014,
  • FRA Hedva Ser, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Special Envoy for Cultural Diplomacy since March 2017,
  • JOR Princess Sumaya bint Hassan, UNESCO Special Envoy for Science for Peace since October 2017.

Former Envoys

  • Saudi Arabia Prince Talal ibn Abd al-Aziz (1931-2018) - Special Envoy for Water
  • CAN The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean - Special Envoy for Haiti, resigned in 2014
  • USA Samuel Pisar (1929-2015) - Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Education

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