Mohamed El-Erian | |
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Born | Mohamed Abdullah El-Erian August 19, 1958 New York City, U.S. |
Education | Queens' College, Cambridge (BA) St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil) |
Known for | Former CEO of PIMCO |
Mohamed Abdullah El-Erian (Arabic: محمد العريان, romanized: Muḥammad al-ʿAryān; born August 19, 1958) is an Egyptian-American economist and businessman. He is President of Queens' College, Cambridge, and chief economic adviser at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO where he was CEO and co-chief investment officer (2007–14). He was chair of President Obama's Global Development Council (2012–17),[1] and is a columnist for Bloomberg View,[2] and a contributing editor to the Financial Times.[3]
Since 2014, he has been 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[4] and Foreign Policy.[5] 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.[6] Together with Sir Harvey McGrath, he co-chairs the capital campaign for Cambridge University. 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.[7]