In conversation with Dr Mohamed El-Erian

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Our EBRD First Vice-President Jurgen Rigterink is in conversation with Mohamed El-Erian, an Egyptian-American, born in New York, with wide experience as an academic, investor and advisor. He graduated in Economics from Queens College, Cambridge, and took his PhD at Oxford, before starting a hugely successful career which has taken him from the IMF to the investment firm PIMCO, where he became CEO and Co-CIO, and then into a portfolio of academic, public service and other roles. Foreign Policy magazine named him as a Top 100 Global Thinker four years in a row.

He is currently President of Queen’s College, and chief economic advisor at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO.  He is a professor of practice at Wharton (University of Pennsylvania), a columnist at Bloomberg News, a Financial Times contributing editor, on the board of several non-profits and one corporate board, and has advised governments and industrial and financial companies.  He has served as chair of President Obama's Global Development Council and was President of Harvard Management Company.  You can find out more about him here.