Washington: Joe Biden US President nominated Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Mayor as his ambassador to India. Juster was appointed as distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, earlier this week. Biden has also nominated Denise Campbell Bauer, as his envoy to Monaco; Peter D Haas, to Bangladesh; and Bernadette M Meehan, his top diplomat to Chile.

Eric Garcetti would replace Kenneth Juster who served as India’s Ambassador to the US during the Trump administration, if US Senate confirms. White House in a statement said that 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, including six as Council President.

Garcetti, as a Mayer oversees the busiest container port in the Western Hemisphere, the largest municipal utility in the country, and one of the busiest airports in the world. He led LA’s successful bid to return the summer Olympic Games to American soil for the first time in three decades.

He currently chairs LA Metro, the country’s second-busiest transit agency, which is building or extending 15 new transit lines, and shifting to an all-electric fleet. Garcetti co founded Climate Mayors and led more than 400 US mayors to adopt the Paris Climate agreement.

Garcetti is the current Chair of C40 Cities a network of 97 of the world’s biggest cities taking bold climate action and has led the organization’s engagement and expansion in India as well as C40’s global response to the Covid – 19 pandemic through the sharing of best practices and resources.