Welcoming Reception honoring Ambassador Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez

Ambassador Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez,
Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles

As of February 26, 2024, Ambassador Carlos González serves as Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles. He was ratified to this role unanimously by the Mexican Senate in December 2023.
As a career diplomat since 1987, he has specialized in the Mexican communities in the United States, the country where he has served in all of his appointments outside of Mexico. In the late nineties, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, in the Program for Mexican Communities Abroad, and in 2003 he became the first Executive Director of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME), an agency responsible for strengthening ties and collaboration between Mexico and its diaspora.
He has had five assignments abroad. Early in his career, he was Consul for Community Affairs at the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles. Later, from 1999 to 2003, he was appointed Counselor for Latino Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington D.C.
In 2009, Amb. Carlos González was appointed as Consul General of Mexico in Sacramento, where, in addition to his regular activities, he was in charge of monitoring public policies implemented in the state that could affect Mexico or Mexican communities in California. After six years in Sacramento, Ambassador Gonzalez was transferred to the capital of Texas, serving as Consul General of Mexico in Austin, once again being responsible for monitoring state public policies, as well as providing the traditional general services of a Consulate General, such as documentation, protection, and community development.
In September 2011, the President of Mexico conferred him the rank of Ambassador. In 2019, he began his duties as Consul General in San Diego, California, where he served until the end of February 2024.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from El Colegio de México and a Master’s degree in International Relations from the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). }
He is the author of several publications on the Mexican population in the United States.
The Ambassador is married to Alina, and they have two daughters: Marina and Camila.

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