Eric Garcetti is a public servant, diplomat, and strategist. As U.S. Ambassador to India from 2023-2025, he led America’s second-largest diplomatic mission and record expansion of trade, visas, defense, and health cooperation between the world’s two largest democracies.
After 12 years on the Los Angeles City Council, in 2013 Garcetti was elected as the youngest Mayor of Los Angeles and he was re-elected with the widest margin ever recorded.
While mayor, Los Angeles was named the best-run city in America by What Works Cities and Garcetti was named Public Official of the Year by Governing. Garcetti oversaw record economic growth, implemented bold climate action, won the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games for Los Angeles and left the city with a record budget surplus.
Garcetti is a former naval officer and was awarded the New Frontier Award from the Kennedy Library for embodying President Kennedy’s vision of service.
An expert in energy, mobility, urban planning, technology, and economic development, Garcetti is a senior consultant to cutting-edge companies disrupting the way we move, power, and empower our future.
Garcetti earned a B.A. and M.A. in international relations at Columbia University and studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.