 On July 1, 2019, El-Erian was appointed Senior Global Fellow at The Lauder Institute and Part-Time Professor of Practice at The Wharton School.El-Erian was born in New York City on August 19, 1958, to Egyptian parents, Abdullah El-Erian, and Nadia Shoukry, a cousin of Egyptian politician Ibrahim Shoukry.Shortly after his birth, the family moved back to Egypt, where El-Erian spent some of his early childhood along with short periods in Europe where his father attended meetings of the UN law commission.