Mohamed El-Erian

Dr. Mohamed El-Erian serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He served as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Management Board at Allianz Capital Partners. He also serves as an Advisor of International Advisory Board at Investcorp. He was Chief Executive Officer & Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO. He serves as a Board Member at Payoff.com. He re-joined PIMCO at the end of 2007 after serving for two years as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard's endowment and related accounts. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. He first joined PIMCO in 1999 and was a senior member of PIMCO's portfolio management and investment strategy group. Before coming to PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London and before that, he spent 15 years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Dr. El-Erian has served on several boards and committees, including the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, the International Center for Research on Women, and the IMF's Committee of Eminent Persons. He is currently a board member of the NBER and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He holds a master's degree and doctorate in economics from Oxford University and received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University. He was the chairman of Barack Obama's Global Development Council.