Eric M. Garcetti serves as Ambassador for Global Climate Diplomacy for C40 Cities, leading climate negotiations and action on behalf of the world's largest cities. Previously, as Chair of C40, he represented the world's urban leaders at COP26 in Glasgow, delivering the Cities Race to Zero pledge — a commitment by over 1,000 cities to achieve net-zero carbon futures. He is also co-founder of Climate Mayors, a nonpartisan network of more than 700 American mayors protecting their communities from climate change.

From 2023 to 2025, Garcetti served as U.S. Ambassador to India, leading America's second-largest diplomatic mission and delivering record gains in trade, defense cooperation, and health partnerships between the world's two largest democracies.

After 12 years on the Los Angeles City Council, Garcetti was elected in 2013 as the youngest Mayor in the city's history, winning re-election in 2017 by the widest margin ever recorded. As Mayor, he wrote Los Angeles's Green New Deal — among the most ambitious municipal climate plans in American history — and put the nation's largest municipal utility on a path to carbon neutrality. He oversaw record economic growth, historic infrastructure investments, and won the bid for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Governing magazine named him Public Official of the Year.

He serves on the board of the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Global Advisory Board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has taught international relations at USC and Occidental College. He is an Honorary Fellow of The Queen's College Oxford.

Garcetti earned his B.A. and Master's in International Affairs at Columbia University, studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and the London School of Economics, and served 12 years as a U.S. Navy intelligence officer.