El-Erian Spotlights CFC IBES 2019

Mohamed A. El-Erian, chief economic advisor at Allianz, the corporate parent of Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) and president-elect of Queens’ College Cambridge, will headline a dynamic CFC Independent Borrowers Executive Summit (IBES) 2019, being held Nov. 11–13 in Huntington Beach, California. The conference, targeted toward senior leaders of non-Rural Utilities Service borrower cooperatives, provides critical insights on key energy industry, public policy, financial and management issues.

After spending 15 years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., and later as managing director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London, El-Erian joined PIMCO in 1999 as a senior member of its portfolio management and investment strategy group. He left the company in 2006 to become president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard University’s endowment and related accounts, before returning to PIMCO at the end of 2007 as CEO and co-CIO.

El-Erian has published widely on international economic and finance topics. His 2008 best-seller, “When Markets Collide,” won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was named a book of the year by The Economist. His latest work, “The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability and Avoiding the Next Collapse,” published in 2016, was a New York Times bestseller. El-Erian also writes a column for Bloomberg View, works as a contributing editor for the Financial Times and has served on the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee and the New York Federal Reserve Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. From 2012 to 2017 he headed President Obama’s Global Development Council. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the 100 top global thinkers three years in a row.