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ed their wishes to the new US Council, including six as Council ligence Officer in the US Navy
envoy to India Eric Garcetti. President. As Mayor, Garcetti Reserve Component, Garcetti
“As Co-Chair of the Con- oversees the busiest container served under the Commander,
gressional India Caucus, I look port in the Western Hemisphere, US Pacific Fleet and the De-
forward to working with @May- the largest municipal utility in fense Intelligence Agency, retir-
orOfLA Garcetti to strengthen the country, and one of the bus- ing in 2017 as a Lieutenant.
the relationship between the iest airports in the world. He A Rhodes Scholar, he stud-
world’s oldest and largest democ- led LA’s successful bid to return ied at Queen’s College, Oxford,
racies,” tweeted Brad Sherman. the summer Olympic Games to and the London School of Eco-
“An inspired choice by @PO- American soil for the first time nomics and Political Science.
TUS to name @ericgarcetti for in three decades. He currently Garcetti was selected as an
US Ambassador to India. Excit- chairs LA Metro, the country’s inaugural Asia 21 Fellow of the
ed to see Mayor Garcetti put his Southern California (USC). second-busiest transit agency, Asia Society and taught at Occi-
bits of Hindi to good use and ad- Eric M Garcetti has been the which is building or extending 15 dental College’s Department of
vance the US-India partnership. Mayor of the City of Los Ange- new transit lines, and shifting to Diplomacy and World Affairs,
Proud that @USIBC had the les (LA) since 2013, following an all-electric fleet. as well as at the University of
chance to engage Mayor Garcet- 12 years as a member of the City During 12 years as an Intel- Southern California’s School of
ti with India’s Ambassador at International Relations.
the time,” tweeted Nisha Biswal. He has lived and conduct-
Garcetti has a master’s de- Garcetti co-founded climate mayors and led more than 400 ed fieldwork on nationalism,
gree in international affairs from US mayors to adopt the paris climate agreement. he is the ethnicity, and human rights in
Columbia University and also Southeast Asia and Northeast
studied international relations current chair of c40 cities - a network of 97 of the world’s Africa. He is the founding Chair
as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford biggest cities taking bold climate action and has led the or- of the Latino Alliance of May-
University in Britain. Before he ganization’s engagement and expansion in india as well as ors at the US Conference of
entered politics, Garcetti briefly Mayors, serves on the Board of
taught diplomacy and interna- c40’s global response to the covid pandemic through the National Association of Latino
tional relations at Occidental sharing of best practices and resources. Elected and Appointed Offi-
College and the University of cials, and speaks fluent Spanish.

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