UNESCO Special Envoys are personalities associated with various UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

 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:
Prince Talal ibn Abd al-Aziz

Talal ibn Abd al-Aziz

Prince Talal bin Abdul-Aziz , also called The Red Prince, is a senior member of the Saudi royal family, and has led the Arab Gulf Program For the United Nations Development since 1986. He is a former ambassador to France. He served as Minister of Communications till 1955 before the Ministry was...

 - Special Envoy for Water Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned

Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned

Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, DBE is the second of the three wives of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar.-Early life and education:Sheikha Mozah was born in the coastal city Al Khor in northern Qatar...

 - Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands is the wife of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, the third son of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg.-Early life:Petra Laurentien Brinkhorst was born in Leiden on 25 May 1966, the daughter of the former Dutch minister...

 - Special Envoy on Literacy for Development The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean

Michaëlle Jean

Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 27th since Canadian Confederation, from 2005 to 2010....

 - Special Envoy for Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

See also

• UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
  UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
  UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of UNESCO who use their talent or fame to spread the UNESCO ideals, especially attracting media attention...
  
  
• UNESCO Champion for Sport
  UNESCO Champion for Sport
  UNESCO Champions for Sport are international celebrity sport personalities advocates for the United Nations agency UNESCO. This family of world-class athletes purveys UNESCO's message the world over...
  
  
• UNESCO Artist for Peace
  UNESCO Artist for Peace
  UNESCO Artists for Peace are international celebrity advocates for the United Nations agency UNESCO. This category of advocate is intended to heighten public awareness in addition to the categories UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO Special Envoy and UNESCO Champion for Sport...