A Conversation with Mohamed El-Erian

New York Times best selling author Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide, has written a roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis.

“Our current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment, and jittery financial markets, to name a few. Soon we will reach a fork in the road. One path leads to renewed growth, prosperity, and financial stability, the other to recession and market disorder.

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Mohamed A. El-Erian

Mohamed A. El-Erian is the chair of President Obama’s Global Development Council and Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO where he was previously the CEO and co-CIO. He is a contributing editor at the Financial Times and a Bloomberg columnist. Earlier in his career, he served as Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund, Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney, and President and CEO of the Harvard Management Company.

El-Erian was on Foreign Policy’s list of Top 100 Global Thinkers for four consecutive years, and named one of the 500 most powerful people on the planet.

He is regularly on CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg, and his writings have also appeared in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Newsweek, and other outlets. El-Erian’s last book, When Markets Collide, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Award for best business book of the year, was named a best book of the year by The Economist, and was called a best business book of all time by The Independent.