Mohamed A. El-Erian

PIMCO

Year of Birth

1958

Nationality

EG / FR

Field of Knowledge

Economics


Twitter

@elerianm

Mohamed Aly El-Erian (Egyptian Arabic: [محمد العريان]; born August 19, 1958) is an Egyptian-American businessman. He is chief economic adviser at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO where he served as CEO and co-chief investment officer (2007–2014). He served as chair of President Obama’s Global Development Council (2012–17), and is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and a contributing editor to the Financial Times.
Since 2014, he has served on the panel of experts that judged and selected the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year. He is also a regular contributor to “Project Syndicate”, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider as well as Fortune/CNN and Foreign Policy. Named for four years in a row as one of Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” he has written two New York Times Best Sellers, including, The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse published in January 2016 by Random House. Together with Sir Harvey McGrath, he co-chairs the capital campaign for Cambridge University.
On May 28, 2019, it was announced that he would take up office as President of Queens’ College, Cambridge beginning October 1, 2020. On July 1, 2019, El-Erian was appointed Senior Global Fellow at The Lauder Institute and Part-Time Professor of Practice at The Wharton School.

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