Mohamed El-Erian

Podcast Guest

Mohamed El-Erian is a renowned economist, chair of the board of the Center for Global Development, and the René M. Kern Practice Professor of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Born in New York, his father was an Egyptian diplomat, and he spent part of his childhood in France while his father was ambassador there. He began his career with 15 years at the International Monetary Fund, where he became a deputy director. From 2012 to 2017 he chaired President Obama’s Global Development Council. He later served as president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, which he has called the most satisfying job of his career.

He is the author of When Markets Collide, which won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award, and The Only Game in Town. He co-wrote Permacrisis with Gordon Brown and Michael Spence. He writes columns for Bloomberg and the Financial Times, and Foreign Policy named him one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers four years in a row.