Mohamed El-Erian

Mohamed El-Erian is Arabic, born in 1958. He graduated from the Cambridge University and got his master’s and doctorate degree in the University of Oxford (both in economics), which allowed him to become one of the world’s leading investing managers and earn a great reputation.

He has been working for the IMF (Investment Monetary Fund) for 15 years, got the rank of the deputy director and has had an experience working at the London Citibank, teaching at the Harvard Business School.

Mr. El-Erian also made a substantial contribution working for PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company), the world’s largest bond fund, which he joined in 1999, as one of the CEOs (Chief Executive Officers).

And, eventually, this successful investment professional became a head of the HMC ( Harvard Management Company). It is a huge company, that deals with managing the Harvard University’s capital and assets ( worth about 35 billion dollars) - which is considered to be the largest university’s endowment. He has been working there for 2 years, but then returned to PIMCO. By the June 2008 PIMCO had more than $829.5 billion in assets under control and more than 1000 people employed.

He is also well-known as a publisher on different economic and financial issues at the world’s famous newspapers and the author of the book ‘ When Markets Collide’, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2008. The book tells about the structure of the modern capital markets - El-Erian shares with us his unique understanding of the global market and forecasts dramatic changes in the financial markets- essential information each investor should be aware of.

He also has made several hypotheses about the development of the world crisis. In his interview to Handelsblatt he predicted the seat of tension of the crisis to be in Share Markets and the Markets for inputs. His prediction about crisis has strong influence on the behavior of investors.