2023 UCLA International Institute Commencement Ceremony

UCLA International Institute Welcomes Bruins and Their Families to Commencement Ceremony 2023
6:30 pm in Royce Hall
Speaker: Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian
Paul Krekorian has been a member of the Los Angeles City Council (representing District 2) for 13 years and was unanimously elected its president in 2022. He is the first Armenian American to hold elected office in the City of Los Angeles. Born in the San Fernando Valley, where he remains a resident, Krekorian is a first-generation college graduate (USC, political science). He earned a J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and then pursued a successful legal career in Los Angeles for 20 years before entering politics.
He served in the California State Assembly (43rd district) from 2006 to 2010, during which he was floor leader under then-Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (2008-10). For more information about City Council President Krekorian, visit www.paulkrekorian.org.