Arturo Sarukhan Casamitjana (Mexican, born 14 September 1963) is the founder and president of Sarukhan + Associates LLC sarukhanassoc.com.
A consultant and public speaker, he is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, a distinguished visiting professor at the Annenberg School of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute.
He writes a biweekly column in Mexico City's El Universal newspaper and frequently publishes op-eds in U.S.
media outlets.
He also participates in a weekly Mexican television newscast on Milenio TV and a weekly radio segment on Enfoque Noticias.
Ambassador Sarukhan served as a career diplomat in the Mexican Foreign Service for 22 years, receiving the rank of career ambassador in 2006.
From 2007 to 2013, he served as Mexico's ambassador to the United States.
In October 2009, Sarukhan became the first ambassador in Washington, D.C.
to use Twitter in an official capacity as a public diplomacy and outreach and engagement tool.