Eric Garcetti has been confirmed as the brand new US ambassador to India, and can take up a place that has been vacant since Jan 2021. Garcetti’s appointment was confirmed by the US Senate on Wednesday; he was initially nominated by President Joe Biden in July 2021, and renominated in January this yr.
_1620179983709_1620179993585.jpg "Eric Garcetti, the new US ambassador to India (Reuters / File Photo)")
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A Biden loyalist, Garcetti obtained 52 votes in his favour, with 42 votes going towards him. In New Delhi, the 52-year-old will succeed Ken Juster, who was nominated by then President Donald Trump and have become the envoy to India in Could 2017, and resigned after the change in presidency from Trump to Biden.
In the meantime, here’s a temporary profile of Eric Garcetti:
(1.) In line with his web site, he was raised within the San Fernando Valley, and did each B.A. and M.A. from the Columbia College. He was a Rhodes Scholar on the Oxford College and likewise studied on the London Faculty of Economics (LSE).
(2.) He has additionally had educating stints, at Occidental Faculty, and College of South California (USC). Garcetti additionally served as an officer in america Navy Reserve for 12 years.
(3.) From July 2013 to December 2022, he was the forty second mayor of Los Angeles. The primary Jewish mayor of the nation’s second-largest metropolis, he was additionally elected 4 instances by his friends to function the President of the Metropolis Council (2006-2012).
(4.) His mayoral tenure, nevertheless, witnessed a number of controversies, together with allegations of sexual harassment towards his good friend and adviser, Rick Jacobs. Garcetti has repeatedly burdened he was oblivious to Jacobs’ alleged behaviour.
(5.) His father, Gil, served because the fortieth district lawyer of the Los Angeles county, throughout two phrases. His spouse, Amy, was a fellow Rhodes Scholar at Oxford; the couple had been married in Jan 2009 and are dad and mom to an adopted daughter.