Eric Garcetti co-founded Local weather Mayors, led greater than 400 US mayors to undertake the Paris Local weather deal
Washington:
US President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as his ambassador to India.
If confirmed by the Senate, Garcetti, 50, would exchange Kenneth Juster, who served as India’s Ambassador to the US through the Trump administration.
Early this week, Juster was appointed as distinguished fellow on the Council on Overseas Relations.
Saying the nomination together with a number of different ambassadors, the White Home stated Eric M Garcetti has been the Mayor of the Metropolis of Los Angeles since 2013, following 12 years as a member of the Metropolis Council, together with six as Council President.
As Mayor, Garcetti oversees the busiest container port within the Western Hemisphere, the most important municipal utility within the nation, and one of many busiest airports on the earth.
He led LA’s profitable bid to return the summer time Olympic Video games to American soil for the primary time in three many years.
He presently chairs LA Metro, the nation’s second-busiest transit company, which is constructing or extending 15 new transit strains, and shifting to an all-electric fleet.
Garcetti co-founded Local weather Mayors and led greater than 400 US mayors to undertake the Paris Local weather settlement.
He’s the present Chair of C40 Cities – a community of 97 of the world”s largest cities taking daring local weather motion and has led the group”s engagement and growth in India in addition to C40’s world response to the COVID-19 pandemic by the sharing of finest practices and assets.
Throughout 12 years as an Intelligence Officer within the US Navy Reserve Element, Garcetti served below the Commander, US Pacific Fleet and the Defence Intelligence Company, retiring in 2017 as a Lieutenant.
A Rhodes Scholar, he studied at Queen’s School, Oxford and the London Faculty of Economics and Political Science. Garcetti was chosen as an inaugural Asia 21 Fellow of the Asia Society, and taught at Occidental School’s Division of Diplomacy and World Affairs, in addition to on the College of Southern California’s Faculty of Worldwide Relations.
“He has lived and carried out area work on nationalism, ethnicity, and human rights in Southeast Asia and Northeast Africa. He’s the founding Chair of the Latino Alliance of Mayors on the US Convention of Mayors, serves on the Board of Nationwide Affiliation of Latino Elected and Appointed Officers, and speaks fluent Spanish,” the White Home stated.
Biden has additionally nominated Denise Campbell Bauer, as his envoy to Monaco; Peter D Haas, to Bangladesh; and Bernadette M Meehan, his prime diplomat to Chile.