Alexander A. Arvizu (born 1958)[1] is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Albania from 2010 to 2015.

Arvizu was born on the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Japan and is a first-generation American.

His father is originally from Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico and mother was from Kyoto, Japan.

While in Washington, D.C., he served as deputy director of the State Department's Office of Japanese Affairs and then Director for Asian Affairs in the United States National Security Council in the second Clinton Administration.

After returning from Thailand, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in charge of Regional Security for Japan and Korea from 2007 through 2009.