12/08/2014 7:30 PM NCWA Lecture: Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan

A Focus on Inter-American Affairs
and U.S. - Mexican Relations

Arturo Sarukhan, former Mexican Ambassador to the United States, will address the Naples Council on World Affairs on Monday, December 8th, 2014, at St. John the Evangelist’s Kiney Hall, 625 111th St. North in North Naples at 3:45 and 7:30 pm.

Focusing on hemispheric issues, Ambassador Sarukhan will speak to relations with our Latin American neighbors, immigration issues and U.S. policy, new security threats, and foreign policy challenges. He is a Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center, has served as a diplomat in the Mexico Foreign Service for more than 20 years and holds the rank of Career Ambassador which he received in 2006. This is the highest Ambassadorial rank and is given by Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation.

Arturo Sarukhan

Ambassador Sarukhan received his B.A. in international relations from El Colegio de Mexico and an M.A. in American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Ford Foundation Fellow. He has been decorated by the governments of both Spain and Sweden, and has been on the list of the 300 most influential Mexican leaders for five years in a row.