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Ambassador Christopher Landau
Ambassador Christopher Landau
Ambassador Christopher Landau

Christopher Landau served as United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021. During his tenure, relations between the two countries reached historic highs, with the entry into force of the United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement and unprecedented cooperation on migration issues that reduced illegal migrant flows to their lowest levels in decades.

Landau entered diplomatic service after a distinguished career in the law. At the beginning of his career, he clerked for Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court. He practiced at Kirkland & Ellis for more than 25 years, and headed the firm’s appellate litigation practice. He also practiced law at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. He has argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including two on behalf of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and has briefed and argued appeals in all of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

Landau earned his Bachelor of Arts in history, summa cum laude, from Harvard College in 1985, where received a Certificate in Latin American Studies and received the Sophia Freund Prize for the highest grade point average in his graduating class. He wrote his senior thesis, which was awarded the Hoopes Prize, on United States relations with the leftist government of Venezuela in the mid 1940s. He received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1989, where he was articles co-chair of the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize for the highest grade point average in his second year.

Landau was born in Madrid, Spain and speaks fluent Spanish. He is married to Caroline Bruce Landau. The Landaus have two children: Nathaniel (19), and Julia (14).