Mohamed El-Erian

Mohamed El-Erian
El-Erian in 2008
Born
Mohamed Abdullah El-Erian

(1958-08-19) August 19, 1958 (age 66)
New York City, U.S.
EducationQueens' College, Cambridge (BA)
St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil)
Known forFormer 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]

  1. ^ "Times of India". whitehouse.gov. December 22, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  2. ^ "Allianz Names El-Erian as Chief Economic Adviser". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg News. February 27, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  3. ^ "Mohamed El-Erian". www.ft.com. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
  4. ^ "El-Erian: How the markets should read Ukraine's crisis". CNN. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  5. ^ "Laggard". Foreign Policy. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  6. ^ Bernanke, Ben S. "THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN by Mohamed A. El-Erian". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
  7. ^ "Mohamed A. El-Erian Named a Senior Global Fellow at the Lauder Institute and Part-Time Professor of Practice at the Wharton School". News. September 4, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2020.