Mohamed A. El-Erian
Economist and investment executive
Mohamed A. El-Erian is an Egyptian-American economist and businessman who was CEO of the investment firm PIMCO. He wrote The Only Game In Town.
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American Born 1958 in New York City, United States
About Mohamed A. El-Erian
El-Erian was chief executive and co-chief investment officer of PIMCO from 2007 to 2014. He has also been chief economic adviser to Allianz, which owns PIMCO, and deputy director of the International Monetary Fund. He was President of Queens' College, Cambridge. He chaired President Obama's Global Development Council from 2012 to 2017. He has written as a columnist for Bloomberg View and as a contributing editor to the Financial Times. In 2019 he joined The Lauder Institute as a Senior Global Fellow and began a part-time post teaching at The Wharton School. The Only Game In Town was published by Random House in January 2016. It is one of two New York Times bestsellers he has written.