Member, GIC International Advisory Board
Advisor, GIC Investment Strategies Committee

Dr Mohamed El-Erian is President of Queens’ College Cambridge, Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, and Chair of the Gramercy Funds. He is an advisor to the GIC Investment Strategies Committee. He is the Chairman of Under Armour and serves on the board of Barclays. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO from 2007 to 2014, and former chair of President Obama’s Global Development Council from 2012 to 2017. He was President and CEO of Harvard Management Company, Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup, and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. Dr El-Erian writes regularly and is a Financial Times Contributing Editor and Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has two New York Times’ best sellers – the 2008 ‘When Markets Collide’ and the 2016 ‘The Only Game in Town’ – and was named four years in a row to the Foreign Policy list of Top Global Thinkers. His latest book – ‘Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World’ – was co-authored with Gordon Brown, Reid Lidow, and Michael Spence.

Dr El-Erian holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in Economics from Cambridge University, as well as a Masters and Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University.