The 2025-26 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace
Ambassador Eric Garcetti, Former United States Ambassador to India and Former 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 Garcetti is an award-winning public servant and diplomat. His commitment to community is reflected in his two and half decades of public service. Currently Garcetti serves as Ambassador for Global Climate Diplomacy for the Global Covenant of Mayors and C40 Cities, leading global climate negotiations on behalf of all the world’s cities, states, and regions leading up to COP30 in Brazil.
Prior to that, he led America’s second-largest diplomatic mission as U.S. Ambassador to India from 2023 to 2025, bringing about record trade, visas, student exchange, defense partnership, and health and climate cooperation between the world’s two largest democracies.
Elected as the youngest Mayor of Los Angeles in city history in 2013 and re-elected with the widest margin ever recorded in 2017, Garcetti led America’s second-biggest city, overseeing record economic growth and leaving the city with its biggest budget surplus ever. As mayor, he led historic investments in aviation, water, power, and transit, raised the minimum wage, cut the city’s business tax, tripled the pace of housing, and championed the technology and entertainment industries, bringing about record high employment and growth that outpaced every other big city in America. Garcetti attacked poverty in LA, leading the successful efforts to make community college tuition-free, to provide free transit for students, and launching the nation’s biggest guaranteed income program. Garcetti’s time as mayor was LA’s safest decade on record, the result of historic investment in community safety and violence intervention, expanded fire and police department resources, and a focus on making LA more earthquake safe. While he was mayor, 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
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