Newsmaker: Meet Eric Garcetti, Joe Biden's pick for ambassador to India

A one-time vice-presidential candidate is likely to have a closer relationship with the US president unlike some past residents of Roosevelt House

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (50) selected by US President Joe Biden to serve as ambassador to India, ticks all the right boxes.

He is highly educated (Columbia University, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford  and London School of Economics); is strongly pro-immigrant as a grandson and great grandson of immigrants; and has deep and enduring relationships with some of the pillars of the Indian community in Silicon Valley. In picking Garcetti, Biden is rewarding a loyalist who was one of his national campaign co-chairs. He has Biden’s ear and because of the past relationship, Biden will actually listen to him, unlike