
Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan is an international strategic consultant and advisor, public speaker, and media contributor based in Washington, D.C., and a former Mexican ambassador to the United States (2007–2013). President of Sarukhan + Associates, LLC, he’s a distinguished visiting scholar at the USC Annenberg Public Diplomacy School and a postgraduate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is a digital diplomacy pioneer and writes a biweekly column for Mexico City’s El Financiero newspaper, a Bloomberg partner, as well as op-eds in U.S. and British media, and has a weekly radio and TV program in Mexico. A career diplomat, he received the rank of career ambassador in 2006. He served in the Mexican Foreign Ministry as deputy assistant secretary for Inter-American affairs, chief of policy planning, and consul general to New York, among other positions. In 2006, after requesting a leave of absence from the Foreign Service, he joined the presidential campaign of Felipe Calderón as foreign policy advisor and international spokesperson. He then became coordinator of the foreign policy transition team and was then appointed ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Sarukhan was dean of the Latin American ambassadors to the United States. He has been decorated by the governments of Spain and Sweden and has received several awards in recognition of his diplomatic achievements. He sits on several nonprofit and corporate boards. He holds a BA in international relations from El Colegio de México and an MA in U.S. foreign policy from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow.