Garcetti, McCarthy, Magic Johnson And A Muppet Speak At Milken Day 2

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will be among Tuesday's participants at the Milken Institute's 27th annual Global Conference in Beverly Hills, along with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Basketball Hall of Famer Earvin "Magic" Johnson and the "Sesame Street" Muppet Grover.

Garcetti, now the U.S. ambassador to India, will be among the speakers for an 8:30 a.m. session titled "Charting India's Emergence: Prosperous or Precarious?"

Topics to be examined at the session include opportunities for business executives and investors in India given the subdued global economy and challenges the nation faces to greater market participation.

The other speakers are Harshal Chaudhari, president and chief investments officer, GE Asset Management; Radhika Gupta, managing director and CEO, Edelweiss Mutual Fund; Asha Jadeja, president of the Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation; and Srini Sriniwasan, managing director, Kotak Alternate Asset Managers.

The moderator will be Angela Chitkara, the founder and CEO of US-India Corridor LLC, a New York City-based strategic communications and advisory firm working with global enterprises, start-ups, and not-for-profits doing business between the U.S. and India and beyond.

Garcetti is also set to participate in the 2:30 p.m. session on "The Future of Diplomacy and Statecraft," an examination on the need for traditional diplomatic decision-making to adapt to the rapidly evolving global landscape.

The other panelists are Elizabeth Allen, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy; Ramón Martínez de la Guardia, Panama's ambassador to the United States; and former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, now his nation's ambassador to the United States.

The moderator will be Stuart Holliday, the CEO of the Washington-based Meridian International Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit diplomacy center. Holliday was U.S. ambassador for special political affairs at the United Nations from 2003-05. His primary duties involved representing the U.S. on issues in the U.N. Security Council.

McCarthy will be interviewed by The Wall Street Journal editor-at- large Gerard Baker from 10-10:20 a.m.

Organizers said there will be "some exciting news" at a panel from 10-10:15 a.m. on "Confronting the Global Challenge of Our Time" with Grover, Sesame Workshop President and Interim CEO Sherrie Westin and Save the Children US President and CEO Janti Soeripto.

Johnson will be joined by Dodger owner Mark Walter for a discussion on the world of sports from the viewpoints of key stakeholders from 12:30-1:30 p.m., moderated by sportscaster Jim Gray.

The theme of the conference at The Beverly Hilton is "Shaping a Shared Future."

"In a world that at times feels fractured, our theme for this year's conference is a reminder that despite the challenges we face, we are united in our aspirations for a better tomorrow," Milken Institute CEO Richard Ditizio said.

"If we view these issues as problems needing to be solved, we can together move the innovative ideas and financial capital required to craft solutions. The Global Conference brings people together to do just that."

The conference began Sunday with seven invitation-only sessions and four welcoming events and will run through Wednesday.

The conference's more than 200 public sessions will be streamed at www.globalconference.org. The livestream schedule is available at milkeninstitute.org/events/global-conference-2024/livestream

The Milken Institute bills itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life, with a focus on financial, physical, mental and environmental health.

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