Date and Start Time: Saturday, June 14, at 5:30 p.m.
Date and End Time: Approx. Saturday, June 14, at 8:00 p.m.
Location: Pauley Pavilion
Student Arrival Time: Approx. 4:30 p.m. at the UCLA Tennis Center’s Gate B (along Bruin Walk)
Guest Arrival Time: The doors to Pauley Pavilion will open at 4:30 p.m.
Guest Ticket Limit and Cost: No limit. The first four tickets, which must still be ordered, are complimentary. The cost for each remaining ticket is $20.
If you are graduating Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025, or Summer 2025, you are eligible to participate in our Department Commencement Ceremony. Students that are graduating in Fall 2025 and later but would like to participate in the Spring 2025 ceremony, please visit the Special Inclusion Petition webpage for specific instructions.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Students who elect to participate in commencement agree to remain for the full length of the ceremony out of respect for your fellow students and their families.
Ticketing Info
To participate in the UCLA Department of Economics Commencement and to order tickets for your family and friends to attend, please follow the instructions that you will find at Ticketing – Commencement.
If you did not order your Department of Economics Commencement student and guest tickets during the self-service on-line order period or if you would like to order additional tickets, please send us a message via the MyUCLA Message Center , with the subject, “2025 Commencement Ticket Order Econ.” Please include a statement indicating that you are requesting to order tickets for the Department of Economics Commencement ceremony on June 14th. If you have not ordered your complimentary student ticket, please also request the student ticket in addition to your guest tickets.
If you are participating in the ceremony, please indicate how many guest tickets you want to order. The first four guest tickets are complimentary. The cost of each additional ticket after the first four is $20. If you are ordering more than four guest tickets, please include the following statement: “I understand that I will be charged $20 for each guest ticket beyond the complimentary four. I understand that once my ticket request is processed and billed, I will not be issued a refund even if the tickets are not used.”
If you have already ordered tickets and you want to order more, please indicate only the number of additional tickets that you are requesting.
Please note the ticket ordering deadline is June 10th at noon.
Ticket orders will be delivered via email, from Friday, May 30, 2025, through Friday, June 13, 2025. Please be sure to check your spam folder since tickets are often delivered there. To prepare for ticket distribution you may add cto@tickets.ucla.edu as part of your safe sender list.
You will be receiving two emails per ceremony, one containing your graduate ticket and the other with your guest tickets. Please be sure to be ready to present the correct ceremony’s ticket upon check in. On the day of, your guests must have access to their tickets as well. If you have selected PDF Delivery, you will receive all of your tickets as a PDF via email. If you have not selected PDF Delivery, you will receive an email with instructions on how to load your tickets onto your smartphone.
More information will be announced between now and commencement day. Please make sure that you check this webpage periodically and make sure that you are subscribed to Econ-Alert.
Accessibility Info
Parking/Drop-Off – Parking Structure 7
The height clearance at Parking Structure 7 is 8’2″. Vehicles within this height limit may park in an ADA space or regular parking space in Structure 7. Parking in an ADA space requires an official DMV parking placard. Payment for parking is also required. Drop-offs may take place at Gateway Plaza at the turn around at the end of Westwood Plaza (see attached map).
ADA Drop-Off Map for Pauley Pavilion
Entrance into Pauley Pavilion
There are no designated ADA graduation tickets. However, guests who need an accessible entrance to Pauley Pavilion may enter through the northeast door. This entrance is specifically designated for guests who need an accessible entrance, but they may enter from any door.
Seating
There are several seating areas inside Pauley Pavilion for guests who require accessible seating. One chair is provided in these seating areas for a companion. If there are more guests in the party, they may sit in the reserved two rows in front of the platform. Even though these areas are designated for guests who need accessible seating, they are first come first serve seats.
*Pauley Pavilion does not provide wheelchairs to guests. Any guest who requires a wheelchair must provide their own.
Additional Info
Additional Commencement details can be found here.
Keynote Speaker
Terry has a 35 year career in technology and telecommunications. For 18 of the 35 years, Terry worked for Vodafone Group Plc/AirTouch Communications in a variety of roles domestically and internationally including Group Strategy and Business Improvement Officer and Regional President, Vodafone Americas which included oversight of Vodafone’s 45% interest in Verizon Wireless and Vodafone’s venture capital activities. Terry also sat on the Executive Committee of Vodafone Group Plc and on the Board of Verizon Wireless.
In June 2012, Terry received an appointment by President Obama to serve as Ambassador, Head of U.S. Delegation for the World Conference on International Telecommunications. This 100 person delegation comprised of members of U.S. Government, industry and civil society, formulated and communicated the U.S. policy regarding the criticality of a free and open internet, the criticality of inclusive, multi stakeholder governance, the need to proactively address cybersecurity threats and the need for liberalized, open markets which encourage accelerated broadband access globally.
Terry is currently the Faculty Director of the UCLA Anderson’s Easton Technology Management Center, which is responsible for preparing the next generation of leaders for a world driven by technology, based innovation. He is also a full time Adjunct Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management teaching three courses—the foundational technology management course covering the impact of disruptive innovation on products, services, markets and competition, another course on technology and society addressing the changing nature of leadership addressing the benefits technology can offer juxtaposed against a growing techlash and a third course—a global immersion program covering the transformational impact of technology on the greater China region. From 2011-13, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Harvard Business School. In each year from 2017-2024, he was awarded UCLA Anderson Teacher of The Year by the Fully Employed Executive MBA’s and in 2019 additionally received the Citibank Teaching Award.
Terry sits on the Advisory Board of RapidSOS, Revilico and is the Board Chair of the Harvard Business School California Research Center and is a member on the UCLA Economics Department Board of Visitors. He was also the former Board Chair of Skylo Technologies, Envivio and FiberTower.
Terry holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from UCLA and MBA from Harvard University and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
