Last Updated: April 12, 2023, 00:31 IST
Garcetti is named a dedicated public servant, educator, and diplomat. (Image: AP)
The former Los Angeles mayor was nominated to the high-profile publish of the Ambassador to India over two years in the past
US Ambassador-designate Eric Garcetti on Tuesday night time arrived in India, over two years after the then US envoy Kenneth Juster stepped down when Joe Biden took cost because the American president. Considered an in depth aide of Biden, Garcetti acquired the affirmation to the publish from the US Senate round a month in the past.
The former Los Angeles mayor was nominated to the high-profile publish of the Ambassador to India over two years in the past.
But the nomination was not confirmed by the Senate earlier following considerations by some lawmakers that Garcetti, because the then Los Angeles mayor, had not adequately dealt with allegations of sexual assault and harassment towards one among his aides.
“Namaste, Ambassador-Designate Eric Garcetti! We’re thrilled to welcome you to #IncredibleIndia and work with you to build even stronger ties between our two great nations,” the US Embassy in India tweeted.
The Embassy has been with out an envoy since January 2021, maybe the longest such stretch in the historical past of US-India relations.
Juster, the final US envoy to New Delhi, stepped down in January 2021 after Biden turned the US president.
Garcetti is named a dedicated public servant, educator, and diplomat. He was confirmed in a bipartisan vote because the twenty fifth US Ambassador to India on March 15.
After serving 12 years as a Los Angeles metropolis council member, Garcetti was elected because the forty second Mayor of Los Angeles in 2013.
He was then the youngest mayor in Los Angeles historical past, and was re-elected in 2017 with the widest margin ever recorded in town.
Garcetti additionally served as a naval officer in the reserve element for 12 years and was chosen as Rockefeller Next Generation Leadership Fellow, an inaugural Asia 21 Fellow of the Asia Society, a Young Fellow of the French-American Foundation, a Rodel Fellow on the Aspen Institute, and a Reboot Fellow. In 2005, he was awarded the New Frontier Award given every year by the Kennedy household and Kennedy Library to a younger elected official who embodies President Kennedy’s imaginative and prescient of service.
Garcetti earned a BA diploma at Columbia College, Columbia University as a John Jay Scholar.
Garcetti studied Hindi and Indian tradition and historical past whereas at Columbia and went on to earn a Master’s diploma at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. After graduating, Garcetti was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar, finding out at The Queen’s College, Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
While in England, he met his now-wife Amy Elaine Wakeland, who was a fellow member of his Rhodes Scholar class.
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