Mohamed El-Erian – 2024 Wharton MBA Program for Executives Graduation Speech

Watch Mohamed El-Erian deliver his graduation speech to the Wharton MBA Program for Executives Class of 2024 (East) at the ceremony in Philadelphia on May 18, 2024. More about our Executive MBA (EMBA) program: An executive MBA program, also known as an EMBA program, is designed for students who are further along in their careers and want to continue working full-time while in school. Schedules vary among programs, but most offer part-time formats like weekend classes. At Wharton, EMBA students earn the same MBA degree as full-time MBA students. With the same outstanding faculty, the same access to exceptional professional resources, and the same degree as Wharton’s full-time MBA, there are now three ways to earn the Wharton MBA in a format for working professionals: in Philadelphia, in San Francisco, or in Wharton’s new Global format. More about Mohamed El-Erian: Dr. Mohamed El-Erian is President of Queens’ College Cambridge, Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, and Chair of Gramercy Funds. He is an advisor to the GIC Investment Strategies Committee and serves on the boards of Barclays and Under Armour, as well as non-profits such as the NBER. He is also a Senior Global Fellow at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and the Rene M. Kern Practice Professor at The Wharton School. Previously, Mohamed was CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO (2007-2014), and is the former chair of President Obama’s Global Development Council (2012-2017). He was President and CEO of Harvard Management Company, Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup, and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. Mohamed publishes regularly, and is a Financial Times Contributing Editor and Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has two New York Times’ best sellers – When Markets Collide (2008) and The Only Game in Town (2016) – and was named four years in a row to the Foreign Policy list of “Top Global Thinkers.” Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix our Fractured World –his new book co-authored with Gordon Brown,…