UNIDO Goodwill Ambassadors are expert advocates of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and use their talent and experience to advocate for sustainable industrial development in developing countries. Other United Nations Goodwill Ambassador programs usually take a celebrity approach.
UNIDO Goodwill Ambassadors, and the year they were appointed:
- Mamadou Mansour Cama, businessman, Senegal (2004)
- Reinosuke Hara, representative of Hayama Capital Inc., Japan (2005)
- Peter Sutherland, industrialist and politician, Ireland (2005)
- Mario Baccini, politician and President of the Italian Microcredit Institute, Italy (2005)
Famous quotes containing the words united, nations, industrial, development, organization, goodwill and/or ambassador:
“Hollywood ... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“The peace loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.... When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Ultimately, it is the receiving of the child and hearing what he or she has to say that develops the child’s mind and personhood.... Parents who enter into a dialogue with their children, who draw out and respect their opinions, are more likely to have children whose intellectual and ethical development proceeds rapidly and surely.”
—Mary Field Belenky (20th century)
“Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.”
—Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1931)
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—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)