Mr. McCulley is a managing director, generalist portfolio manager, and member of the investment committee in the Newport Beach office. In addition, he heads PIMCO's short-term bond desk, leads PIMCO’s cyclical economic forums and is author of the monthly research publication, Global Central Bank Focus. Prior to joining PIMCO in 1999, he was chief economist for the Americas at UBS Warburg. During 1996–1998, he was named to six seats on the Institutional Investor All-America fixed income research team. He has 26 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. He received his undergraduate degree from Grinnell College. From Times article: Mr. Erian points out that the firm’s executives have been members of the Treasury Department’s Borrowing Advisory Committee (along with many other Wall Street executives) for years. Its current representative, the Pimco managing director Paul McCulley, says part of his job is to ingratiate himself with officials at the Treasury and the Federal Reserve so Pimco can better understand impending policy decisions. He boasts that he is on a “first-name basis” with both Mr. Geithner and the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke.