Prof. Mauro Guillen talks with Prof. Mohamed El-Erian - Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz and a Senior Global Fellow at the Lauder Institute - as part of Wharton's new course, "Epidemics, Natural Disasters, and Geopolitics: Managing Global Business and Financial Uncertainty," which focuses on the the impact and implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Before joining PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London and before that, he spent 15 years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. His book, When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.