Mohamed A. El-Erian

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Momahed A. El-Erian (born in 1958; Arabic: العريان محمد) is a co-CEO co-CIO for PIMCO, the world's largest bond investor with $692 billion of assets under management as of 2007. El-Erian previously worked as the investment manager of Harvard University's $34.9 billion endowment fund, where he spent almost two years. On September 12, 2007, it was announced that El-Erian would return to PIMCO and take up his new roles starting January 1, 2008.

Harvard recruited El-Erian to fill the void left in September 2005 by the departure of 15-year investment chief Jack Meyer, who took almost three dozen Harvard officials to start a Boston-based hedge fund. El-Erian rebuilt the staff and guided the fund to a 23 percent gain in the fiscal year ended June 30, adding $5.7 billion to the world's biggest university endowment.

El-Erian cited being closer to family one of the reasons of moving back to the west coast and working for PIMCO. El-Erian is the son of an Egyptian diplomat and is fluent in Arabic, English and French. An economist, he received bachelor's and master's degrees from Cambridge University in England, and a second master's and a doctorate from Oxford University.

El-Erian rose through the ranks of the International Monetary Fund to become a deputy director. He left in 1997 and worked as a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney until joining PIMCO, a unit of Munich-based insurer Allianz AG. El-Erian's name was put forward in 2004 to be the IMF's managing director.