Mohamed A. El-Erian is a managing director and a senior member of PIMCO's Portfolio Management and Investment Strategy Group. PIMCO is one of the leading global investment management firms, with over $500 billion of assets under management. El-Erian serves on the firm's seven-member Investment Committee and its three-member Partner Compensation Committee. In addition to his firm-wide responsibilities, he leads the emerging market portfolio management team, overseeing $28 billion in emerging markets strategies for institutional and retail clients. He also manages $3.3 billion in total return portfolios, which have broad investment mandates, as well as credit blend portfolios. He has oversight responsibility for the firm's corporate, short-term, and mortgage teams with assets totaling over $200 billion. El-Erian publishes regularly (including a monthly market analysis), interacts with leading academics and investors around the world, and meets with the firm's largest and most sophisticated clients.

He joined PIMCO in May 1999, after working at Salomon Smith Barney/Citibank in London, where he was a managing director heading the emerging markets economic research team from January 1998.

El-Erian previously spent almost 15 years with the IMF, having joined the institution in 1983 through the "Economist Program." At the Fund, he worked on a range of country and policy issues, serving in several posts including deputy director of the Middle Eastern Department and adviser to the First Deputy Managing Director, Stanley Fisher. He participated in negotiations for IMF-supported programs in Africa, Asia, central Europe, the Middle East, and the Western Hemisphere. He also worked on Fund-wide and international debt policy issues.

El-Erian has been the subject of several feature articles in publications including Barron's, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Dow Jones Newswire, Euromoney, Fortune, Latin Finance, and the Wall Street Journal. Private sector recognitions for his contributions include being voted in March 2000 as one of the "Ten Most Important Executives in Latin American Borrowing" in the poll conducted by Emerging Markets, and the February 2003 Global Investor's Award for Investment Excellence in Emerging Market Debt. In June 2003, El-Erian was included in Fortune Magazine's article titled "The Real Mutual Fund Dream Team." Fortune also named him one of the world's top 50 investors. The Emerging Market Debt Fund he manages has won several awards including, most recently, the 2004 Lipper Award for consistently strong performance. In 2004, he was named by Latin Finance one of the top investors in Latin America and, in 2005, was ranked 12th in the magazine's survey of "most powerful and influential people in Latin America and the Caribbean."

El-Erian has published widely on economic and financial issues. He is also a recent contributor to a range of publications including the Financial Times, Finance, Reuters, and various specialized financial media. He has served on several boards, including the Emerging Markets Traders Association (EMTA) and the Emerging Markets Creditors Association (EMCA). He was also on the Advisory Board of the Economic Research Forum and is a member of the IMF's Capital Markets Consultative Group. He currently serves on the board of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES). He is a member of the Review Group chaired by Bill McDonough, which is currently advising the managing director of the IMF on the organizational approach to financial issues.

El-Erian holds a master's and a doctorate degree in economics (awarded in 1982 and 1985, respectively) from Oxford University, and completed his undergraduate economics degree at the University of Cambridge (first class honors) in 1980.

El-Erian is married to Jamie, a lawyer. They have one daughter, Samia.