Christopher Landau

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Christopher Thomas Landau (born November 13, 1963) is an American lawyer and diplomat serving as the United States deputy secretary of state since 2025. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021. Landau studied law at Harvard University. After graduation, he clerked for conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. In private practice at Kirkland & Ellis, he argued nine cases before the Court over a period of 11 years. In December 2024, President-elect Trump nominated Landau to serve as deputy secretary of state in his second administration.

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