Joe Biden nominates Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as envoy to India

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 substitute Kenneth Juster.

Early this week, Juster was appointed as distinguished fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations.Announcing the nomination together with a number of different ambassadors, the White House mentioned Eric M Garcetti has been the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles since 2013, following 12 years as a member of the City 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 planet.He led LA’s profitable bid to return the summer time Olympic 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 traces, and shifting to an all-electric fleet.ALSO READ: Biden to host summit of Quad international locations this yr: White HouseGarcetti co-founded Climate Mayors and led greater than 400 US mayors to undertake the Paris Climate settlement.He is the present Chair of C40 Cities a community of 97 of the world’s greatest cities taking daring local weather motion and has led the group’s engagement and growth in India in addition to C40’s international response to the COVID-19 pandemic by means of the sharing of finest practices and assets.During 12 years as an Intelligence Officer within the US Navy Reserve Component, Garcetti served underneath the Commander, US Pacific Fleet and the Defence Intelligence Agency, retiring in 2017 as a Lieutenant.A Rhodes Scholar, he studied at Queen’s College, Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Garcetti was chosen as an inaugural Asia 21 Fellow of the Asia Society, and taught at Occidental College’s Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs, in addition to on the University of Southern California’s School of International Relations.“He has lived and conducted field work on nationalism, ethnicity, and human rights in Southeast Asia and Northeast Africa. He is the founding Chair of the Latino Alliance of Mayors at the US Conference of Mayors, serves on the Board of National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, and speaks fluent Spanish,” the White House mentioned.Biden has additionally nominated Denise Campbell Bauer, as his envoy to Monaco; Peter D Haas, to Bangladesh; and Bernadette M Meehan, his high diplomat to Chile.ALSO READ | America coming again collectively however battle in opposition to Covid not over but: US President Biden on July 4WATCH | US President Biden orders evaluation of Covid-19 vius origin