PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, has retained five world-renowned experts on economic and political issues to form a PIMCO Global Advisory Board.
The Board members will contribute their insights to the firm on global economic, political, and strategic developments and their relevance for financial markets. The members of the Board are Ben Bernanke (who will serve as chairman), Gordon Brown, Ng Kok Song, Anne-Marie Slaughter and JeanClaude Trichet.
The Board will meet several times a year at PIMCO’s Newport Beach office as well as at other PIMCO offices around the world.
The members will also attend the firm’s annual Secular Forum in May of each year, where PIMCO’s investment professionals discuss the economic outlook and its implications for markets over the next three to five years.
Together, the Board members will contribute their economic, geopolitical, and market expertise and insights to the firm’s investment process.
The Global Advisory Board members:
- Ben Bernanke, former Federal Reserve Chairman and scholar at the Brookings Institution.
- Gordon Brown, former U.K Prime Minister and former Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Ng Kok Song, former Chief Investment Officer of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC).
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department
