The 2025-26 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace
Ambassador Eric Garcetti, 26th United States Ambassador to India and 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles
Tuesday, April 21, 20264:30 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA University Club (Former Faculty Club), Morrison Room
480 Charles E. Young Dr East
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Registration opening soon!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Eric M. Garcetti is a political and diplomatic leader serving as Ambassador for Global Climate Diplomacy for C40 Cities, where he advances international climate cooperation among the world’s major cities, states, and regions.
From 2023 to 2025, he served as U.S. Ambassador to India, leading one of America’s largest diplomatic missions and helping deliver record gains in trade, visas, education exchange, defense cooperation, and health partnerships between the world’s two largest democracies.
Garcetti previously served 12 years on the Los Angeles City Council before being elected in 2013 as the youngest mayor in city history and re-elected in 2017 by a record margin. As Mayor, he led Los Angeles through a period of record job growth, business formation, and fiscal strength, while dramatically expanding the city’s global footprint. He deepened international trade and investment ties, boosted tourism and foreign partnerships, and founded or led major global city networks advancing climate action, gender equity, migration cooperation, urban resilience, and green ports. He also secured Los Angeles’s successful bid to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and was named Public Official of the Year by Governing magazine.
In 2019, he was elected Chair of C40 Cities, a coalition of nearly 100 of the world’s leading cities committed to climate action. He serves on the boards of the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Global Diplomacy Council of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and has taught international relations and diplomacy at leading universities in Los Angeles. He is an Honorary Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, Garcetti holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University and studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and at the London School of Economics. A fourth-generation Angeleno, he lives in the San Fernando Valley with his family.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Kal Raustiala holds the Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law School and is a Professor at the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. Since 2007 he has served as Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. From 2012-2015 he was UCLA’s Associate Vice Provost for International Studies and Faculty Director of the International Education Office. Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property.
ABOUT THE LECTURE SERIES
In sponsoring the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace, the Burkle Center for International Relations celebrates the memory of Brodie as an eminent scholar and teacher. The lectures provide a special forum for outstanding students of politics, strategy, and warfare to present their thoughts and research within the scholarly and humanist tradition exemplified by Bernard Brodie.
Established in 1980, the lecture series provides a special forum for dignitaries and scholars of politics, strategy, warfare, and peace to present their views to the UCLA community and the public.
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Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations