1. Mohamed Abdullah El-Erian is an Egyptian-American economist and businessman.
40 Facts About Mohamed El-Erian
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Mohamed El-Erian 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.
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Mohamed El-Erian was chair of President Obama's Global Development Council, and is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and a contributing editor to the Financial Times.
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On July 1,2019, Mohamed 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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Mohamed El-Erian was born in New York City on August 19,1958, to Egyptian parents Abdullah Mohamed El-Erian, then an ambassador, and Nadia Shoukry, a cousin of Egyptian politician Ibrahim Shoukry.
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Mohamed El-Erian later obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in economics from St Antony's College, Oxford.
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In June 2011, Mohamed El-Erian received an honorary doctorate degree from the American University in Cairo.
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Mohamed El-Erian has served on the boards of trustees of several educational institutions, including Pegasus, St Margaret School, Cambridge in America and KAUST.
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Mohamed El-Erian worked for several years at PIMCO as a managing director and head of the emerging market portfolio team, where he earned notoriety by avoiding the 2001 bond default by Argentina that otherwise stung the international bond market.
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Mohamed El-Erian served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School.
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Mohamed El-Erian helped deliver investment performance for clients and grow PIMCO's assets under management from under $1 trillion to $2 trillion.
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On January 21,2014, Mohamed El-Erian resigned from PIMCO effective March of that year, stating he decided to leave after receiving a letter from his daughter outlining important events in her life that he missed.
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However, it was widely reported that his resignation was triggered by conflicts with Gross, raising questions about the company's succession plan as Mohamed El-Erian was widely perceived as heir apparent to the 69-year-old Gross.
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Mohamed El-Erian remains a member of the parent company's international executive committee, chairs its International Advisory Committee, and is an advisor to the management board.
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Mohamed El-Erian has published widely on international economic and finance topics.
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Mohamed El-Erian is a member of the Financial Times "A-List" of writers, has a monthly column in Foreign Policy and is a contributing editor at the FT.
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Mohamed El-Erian is a regular op-ed contributor to Project Syndicate.
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Mohamed El-Erian's columns have appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Economist, "Business Insider", Financial Times, Fortune, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Express, and other outlets.
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Mohamed El-Erian's first book When Markets Collide was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
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Mohamed El-Erian's second book, The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse, was a New York Times bestseller.
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Mohamed El-Erian was named to Foreign Policy's list of Top 100 Global Thinkers four years in a row: for 2009,2010,2011, and 2012.
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Mohamed El-Erian appears regularly on CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg as well as other media outlets.
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Mohamed El-Erian has served on several boards and committees, including the US Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, the International Center for Research on Women, the IMF's Committee of Eminent Persons, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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Mohamed El-Erian is currently a board member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the NBER, co-chair of the Capital Campaign for the University and Colleges of Cambridge and Cambridge in America.
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On March 18,2015, Mohamed El-Erian was admitted as Companion of the Guild of Benefactors, Cambridge University.
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Mohamed El-Erian is a board member of New America, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and The Pegasus School.
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Mohamed El-Erian is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the international advisory committees of Allianz and Investcorp.
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Mohamed El-Erian is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
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Mohamed El-Erian is a widely recognized thought leader and is credited with developing the post-global financial crisis concept of the "New Normal".
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In November 2007, Mohamed El-Erian was the series kick-off speaker of the MIT Egyptian Club.
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Mohamed El-Erian participated in the international symposium of the Banque de France.
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Mohamed El-Erian was the keynote speaker at the 2014 CME Conference along with Ben Bernanke and Colin Powell.
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Mohamed El-Erian has spoken before the Economic Club of Canada, Soka University, ProBono Economics, Boston Security Analysts, Rabobank, Citadel, ETF, National Rural Utilities Cooperative, Cisco, BTG Pactual, Euromoney, NMS, Mortgage Bankers Association, CME, Rabobank, the Global Financial Forum and many others.
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Mohamed El-Erian is a contributor to LinkedIn's Influencer series and was ranked third on their top 10 influencers of the year.
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In December 2015, Mohamed El-Erian was the keynote speaker at the Information Management Network Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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On July 1,2019, Mohamed 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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Mohamed El-Erian was ranked the top influencer by LinkedIn in 2016 and third in 2017.
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Mohamed El-Erian is a New York Jets fan and has been known to appear on TV in a Jets jersey.
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Previously married to Jamie Walters, then to Minouche Shafik, Mohamed El-Erian now is married to Anna Stylianides, who is from South Africa and is the executive director of Eco Oro Minerals Corp.
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In 2023, Mohamed El-Erian won the Great Arab Minds Award in the economics category.