Eric Garcetti is a committed public servant, executive, and diplomat, and a sought-after advisor to leaders and organizations changing the world. From 2023 to 2025, he served as U.S. Ambassador to India, leading the second-largest U.S. diplomatic mission and delivering record gains in trade, defense, and health cooperation between the world's largest democracies.Garcetti is considered one of the world's top thinkers on cities and urban economies. After 12 years on the Los Angeles City Council, he was elected in 2013 as the youngest Mayor of Los Angeles and re-elected in 2017 by the widest margin ever recorded. As CEO of one of the world's most dynamic cities, he oversaw record low crime, record high jobs and business starts, and the largest budget surplus in city history. 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 Magazine. He led the largest transportation and infrastructure investment in a generation, spanning transit, electricity, ports, and airports, and secured the winning bid for Los Angeles to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.Garcetti was elected by his global peers as Chair of C40 Cities, a network of nearly 100 of the world's largest cities leading on climate action, and co-founded Climate Mayors, a network of 700+ American mayors.Garcetti earned his B.A. and Master's in International Affairs at Columbia, studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and served 12 years as a U.S. Navy intelligence officer.