Roundtable on Cross-Border Economic Diplomacy


Ambassador Marcela Celorio
Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles

Born in Mexico City, she holds a J.D. from the Escuela Libre de Derecho and has two master´s degrees, one in diplomatic studies from the Instituto Matias Romero (IMR) and the second, in defense and national security from the Colegio de la Defensa Nacional at the Secretary of National Defense (SEDENA). She continued her academic training at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In addition, she was the first Mexican Foreign Service diplomat to complete the Diplomat in Residency Program at the American University (AU), in Washington, D.C, 2005.
 

Abroad, she first served as a Diplomatic Attaché at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. as a political counselor and Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2006. In September 2006, she was assigned to the Ministry of the Interior, as Director Deputy General in charge of the North America region.

From 2009 to 2012, she served as Deputy Chief of Mission and as Counselor for Economic Affairs, Trade and Cooperation for the Mexican Embassy in Israel; in 2012, as Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Mexican Mission to the European Union and from 2013 to 2016, as Deputy Consul at the Consulate General of Mexico in New York.

From 2016 to 2019, she was appointed as Consul General of Mexico in San Diego, California. In that position, she developed the concept of cross-border diplomacy.