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Mohamed El-Erian

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Economist

Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz

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Gender: Male

Nationality: United Kingdom

Languages: English

Travels from: United Kingdom

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Chair of President Obama’s Global Development Council (2012-2017)
CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO (2007-2014)
President of Queens College, Cambridge

Biography

Internationally respected economist and financier Mohamed El-Erian is a go-to voice around the world on how to decode the global economy, policies, and international markets – markets hang on his analysis and insight. With experience at the highest levels of business and government, El-Erian currently serves as the Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO where he formerly served as Chief Executive and co-Chief Investment Officer. He is the President of Queens’ College, the University of Cambridge, Chair of Gramercy Fund Management, a columnist for Bloomberg View, and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. El-Erian receives resoundingly positive feedback for his events, such as: “In my thirteen years as an event producer, I have never received such positive feedback from a keynote speaker before. I can say with 100% confidence that this was a wise investment in our business.” (Information Management Network)

El-Erian has been named to Foreign Policy’s list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for four years in a row. Since 2014, he has been serving on the jury for the Financial Times/McKenzie Book of the Year award. He also served as Chair of President Obama’s Global Development Council from December 2012 to January 2017. In 2018, he was appointed to the IMF’s External Advisory Group on Surveillance and MIT’s Visiting Committee for the Department of Economics. He is currently the chair of the Under Armour board of directors and serves on that of NBER and several educational institutions. He has been a LinkedIn top influencer. Meeting planners share their praise for El-Erian’s ability to connect with audiences through a humorous laid-back style, and to clearly explain the complex issues of the global economy.

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Author Talk: ‘Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World’

A go-to voice on the global economy, Mohamed El-Erian brings insight into how contemporary issues influence and affect economies in his book Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, co-authored with former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Nobel Prize Laureate Michael Spence.

The longer a problem goes unresolved, the worse it will get; that’s what happens in a permacrisis – and that’s why we must act now. El-Erian provides a framework for succeeding in a world increasingly focused on a cascade of crises such as sputtering growth, surging inflation, and worsening inequality by addressing our broken approaches to growth, economic management, and governance.

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What's Ahead in the Global Economy

Mohamed El-Erian discusses our current economic path, underpinned by central bank policy experimentation. He points to ominous signposts all around us: rising inequality, sluggish growth, political tensions, and volatile financial markets. He dissects continued pressures that warrant radically different monetary policy including youth employment, global wealthy inequality, market illiquidity, and the unsustainable map between financial risk-taking (high) and economic risk- taking (low). And then, thankfully, he outlines his vision for a renewed global economy, prosperity and financial stability.

Available: In person, Virtually

The Fiduciary and Moral Imperative for Business Leaders to Address the Climate Crisis

Renowned economist Mohamed El-Erian stresses that corporations can no longer stand by as our environment changes around us — it is a moral, but also fiduciary imperative that they act. El-Erian speaks about how short-term economic benefits will be outweighed by long-term environmental consequences if business leaders don’t lead on climate change and advises business leaders on how to effectively address the climate crisis while remaining competitive and profitable. El-Erian provides organizations with a clear and renewed understanding of the climate crisis and how to address it as a business.

Available: In person, Virtually

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Testimonials

In my thirteen years as an event producer, I have never received such positive feedback from a keynote speaker before. I was stopped in the hallways and networking events numerous times by attendees who had glowing remarks about Dr. El Erian’s presentation. One attendee stated that ‘it is rare that a speaker not only presents well, but presents quality content.' I can say with 100% confidence that this was a wise investment in our business, as he helped to build our reputation as a program with great content. Personally I also wish to thank Dr. El Erian for being friendly, flexible, hospitable and considerate to our team. He was gracious and kind, and a pleasure to meet.

Information Management Network

We are delighted with every aspect of Mohamed's appearance at our Congress. We received very positive feedback from our leadership and attendees who were impressed with his professionalism, expertise, and presence - and all our team shared the same impression. Thank you and your team for the great help in arranging this and ensuring its success.

Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre

It was, as always, an absolute pleasure having Mohamed with us! All three components of our engagement with him went extremely well and clients loved hearing from him.

A Large Bank in the Middle East

This event was our best success so far; we have had glowing feedback from all internal and external stakeholders.

Australian Financial Review

In my thirteen years as an event producer, I have never received such positive feedback from a keynote speaker before. It is rare that a speaker not only presents well but presents quality content. I can say with 100% confidence that this was a wise investment in our business

Information Management Network

Mohamed did an excellent job. He tailored his remarks to our audience really well. He was also very gracious when interacting with our guests and senior management at the cocktail reception...Here is a sampling of the open-ended feedback: “perfect start”; “he was excellent and very happy to see the high caliber of keynote speaker”; “fantastic, very informative”; “Excellent delivery taking complicated thoughts but delivering them in real life experiences.” I look forward to working together again next year.

Commonfund

We loved hosting Dr. El- Erian! He was amazing!

Economic Club of Canada

Our attendees have been raving about your presentation and valuable insight! Thank you once again for joining us and helping to make our Annual Dinner the largest to date!

CFA Society Chicago

Dr. El-Erian’s participation at the Global Financial Markets Forum on March 2, here in Abu Dhabi, was extremely well-received indeed. We have been inundated with glowing feedback and comments from Abu Dhabi officials, senior management at NBAD, delegates, and staff—they all found Dr. El-Erian’s insights valuable, interesting and enjoyable, and in fact many of them have stated that they felt that his session was the best of the entire forum! He has an incredible ability to convey what are quite complex matters in a relatively simple way that everyone in the audience can understand, and furthermore he connects with people in a remarkable way. Personally I found that my time on stage with Dr. El-Erian was truly special and a memory that will stay with me for many many years to come. Spending time with such an incredible person was a very humbling experience indeed. On behalf of NBAD, a very sincere thank you to Dr. El-Erian for coming to Abu Dhabi and helping to make the event such a success.

National Bank Of Abu Dhabi

Books

Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World

‘Offers hope and good sense in equal measure’ Ian Bremmer ‘A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world’ Sheryl Sandberg Problems are mounting. We face sputtering growth, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, poor policy responses, increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. But a permacrisis need not be permanent. In this book, three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time, Gordon Brown, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence, writing with Reid Lidow, explain where we’ve gone wrong and set out what could be done to bring about a brighter future for generations to come. They look beyond today’s headlines and political rhetoric to offer a bold, big-picture vision and nuanced, achievable solutions for fixing our broken approaches to growth, economic management, and governance. The world is changing. What that change looks like is up to us.

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse

An incisive analysis of the state of the global economy and what the future holds. Surrounded by sluggish growth, high rates of unemployment, rising inequality, growing financial instability and increased social tensions, pessimism about our future abounds. Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers, explains lucidly the realities of the economic choices that we will soon face. The path that the global economy and markets are on is ending. But what comes thereafter is far from predestined. It critically depends on choices that we make as households and companies, and decisions that our political representatives take. The Only Game in Town details how the world is increasingly being shaken, both from above and from below. It illuminates the growing internal contradictions, the constraints that are undermining growth and prosperity, and the radical overhaul in thinking that is required. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, central banks were handed responsibility for the fate of the global economy. Lifting the veil on the inner workings of these powerful and innovative institutions, El-Erian explains why they cannot save us this time around. Laying out a road map for growth, The Only Game in Town shows how and why collaboration between central bankers, policymakers and business leaders is essential. Drawing on insights from behavioral science, economics and finance, this book provides the tools needed to understand the uncertainties that lie ahead and return us to a path of prosperity. Thought provoking and insightful, this book is required reading for investors, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future.

When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change (GENERAL FINANCE & INVESTING)

Winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2008 A detailed map of the new investment landscape from the man Fortune magazine calls the “Global Guru” Never before have investors and policy makers been beset by so many conflicting messages about the economy and the markets. While most pundits dismiss the conflicts as “noise” in the system, Mohamed A. El-Erian, president and CEO of the $35 billion Harvard Endowment and incoming co-CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, one of today’s most successful investment firms, avers that those messages signal deep, structural changes and realignments that are radically redefining the investment game. Written by the man who Fortune magazine refers to as a “Global Guru,” When Markets Collide offers a cogent picture of the rapidly changing world financial system. A book that is sure to become an overnight investment classic, it gets you up to speed on the new economic and investing landscape and provides a detailed blueprint for capitalizing on the phenomenal opportunities now available in that new investment landscape, while minimizing the new and challenging set of risks.

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