Managers

Dr. El-Erian is CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO and is based in the Newport Beach office. He re-joined PIMCO at the end of 2007 after serving for two years as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard’s endowment and related accounts. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. He first joined PIMCO in 1999 and was a senior member of PIMCO's portfolio management and investment strategy group. Before coming to 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. Dr. El-Erian has published widely on international economic and finance topics. His book, "When Markets Collide," was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs 2008 Business Book of the Year and was named a book of the year by The Economist and one of the best business books of all time by the Independent (UK). He was named to Foreign Policy’s list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for 2009, 2010 and 2011. Dr. El-Erian has served on several boards and committees, including the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, the International Center for Research on Women, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the IMF's Committee of Eminent Persons. He is currently a board member of the NBER, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Cambridge in America. He holds a master's degree and doctorate in economics from Oxford University and received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University.

Mr. Balls is a managing director in the London office, a member of the Investment Committee and head of European portfolio management. He leads PIMCO's European investment team (which is based in London and Munich) and manages a range of global and European portfolios, including PIMCO’s Global Advantage strategy, combining developed and emerging fixed income markets. He is also a member of the PM Management Group, overseeing PIMCO’s global interest rate and foreign exchange teams. Mr. Balls was previously a portfolio manager in Newport Beach and the firm's global strategist. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, he spent eight years at the Financial Times as an economics correspondent and columnist in London, New York and Washington, DC. He has 14 years of investment experience and holds a bachelor's degree from Oxford and a master's degree from Harvard University. He was a lecturer in economics at Keble College, Oxford.

Mr. Toloui is an executive vice president in the Singapore office and global co-head of emerging markets portfolio management. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, Mr. Toloui spent seven years in the international division of the U.S. Department of Treasury, including as the director of the Office of the Western Hemisphere, managing a team of economists and advising senior U.S. government officials on financial policies in Latin America. He previously served as senior advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs during the crises in Brazil, Uruguay and Turkey in 2001-2003. He has 14 years of international finance experience and holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a master's degree in international relations from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.