Andrew Balls

{{Short description|British businessman}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Andrew Thomas Balls

| nationality = British

| alma_mater = Keble College, Oxford (BA) Harvard University (MA)

| parents = Michael Balls, Carolyn Janet Balls

}}

Andrew Thomas Balls is PIMCO's Chief Investment Officer for Global Fixed Income{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.pimco.com/en/experts/pages/andrewballs.aspx |title=Experts |website=Pimco.com |date=2013-12-19 |accessdate=2016-02-03}} and a former Financial Times journalist.{{Cite web|title=Andrew Balls {{!}} Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/stream/3c5639cf-71c7-4dc9-a94b-60fdc150feb0|access-date=2021-07-05|website=www.ft.com}} He is a brother of former UK Shadow Chancellor and former government minister Ed Balls; their father is zoologist Michael Balls.{{cite news|author=Simon Goodley |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/mar/02/bonds-government-borrowing |title=Balls the Younger, Pimco's rising star | Business |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 2 March 2012|access-date=2016-02-03}}{{Cite news|date=2012-05-01|title=Ed Balls's brother nets part of £57m Pimco wage packet|author= Goodley, Simon|url=http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/may/01/ed-balls-brother-57m-pimco|access-date=15 December 2023|work=The Guardian|language=en}}

Education

Balls read philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, Oxford graduating in 1995.

He then went on to obtain a master's degree from Harvard Kennedy School.{{Cite web|title=Andrew Balls {{!}} Bloomberg Profile|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks?cic_redirect=fallback|access-date=2021-07-05|website=www.bloomberg.com}}{{Cite web|title=Andrew T. Balls|url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/andrew-t-balls|access-date=2021-07-05|website=www.hks.harvard.edu|language=en}}

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