Mohamed A. El-Erian
| Mohamed A. El-Erian | |
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El-Erian speaking at the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda 2008
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| Born |
August 19, 1958 New York City, United States |
| Residence | Newport Beach, California, United States |
| Citizenship | French Egyptian American |
| Alma mater |
Queens' College, Cambridge St. Anthony's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Former CEO of PIMCO |
Mohamed A. El-Erian (Egyptian Arabic: [mæˈħæmmæd elʕeɾˈjæːn]; 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, 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 4 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 and its Colleges.
El-Erian was born in New York City on August 19, 1958 to an Egyptian father and a French mother. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Egypt, where El-Erian spent some of his early childhood along with short periods in Europe where his father attended meetings of the UN law commission. In 1968, the family moved back to New York when his father took a position at the United Nations. From 1971-73, they lived in France, where El-Erian's father was the Egyptian Ambassador to France.
After attending St John's School, Leatherhead, a boarding school in the United Kingdom, gaining an entrance scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge and receiving a first class honors undergraduate degree in economics, he obtained master's and doctorate degrees in economics from Oxford University. In June 2011, El-Erian received an honorary doctorate degree from the American University in Cairo. Following a Governing Body decision, he was admitted in December 2013 as an Honorary Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge University.
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