Mohamed El-Erian

Senior Global Fellow, The Lauder Institute
Rene M. Kern Practice Professor, The Wharton School
President, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge
Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz

Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian is a Senior Global Fellow at The Lauder Institute and the Rene M. Kern Practice Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As part of the Senior Global Fellows Program, El-Erian leverages his distinguished experience in global affairs, policy, and business to contribute to the curriculum and serve as a mentor to The Lauder Institute student community.

A widely followed leader in economics and finance, El-Erian is Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, Senior Advisor at Gramercy, and the President of Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge. El-Erian’s previous appointments include Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Global Development Council, CEO of the Harvard Management Company, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund, and CEO/co-CIO of PIMCO.

In addition to being a contributing editor at the Financial Times, columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and author of two New York Times bestsellers, El-Erian was named four years in a row to Foreign Policy’s list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” He is credited with identifying and coining the concept of the “New Normal” in 2009 to describe the likely sluggish economic performance of advanced economies after the 2008 global financial crisis, and for pointing out in 2016 the limitations to protracted and sole reliance on central bank policies.  His latest book, written with Gordon Brown and Michael Spence, is Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World.

El-Erian earned his MPhil in economics from the University of Oxford in 1982 as well as his PhD in 1985, and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge in 1980.