PERSON: Steve Liesman

Senior economics reporter

As CNBC's Senior Economics Reporter, Steve Liesman reports on all aspects of the economy including the Federal Reserve Bank and major economic indicators. He appears on "Squawk Box" as well as other CNBC programs throughout the business day.

Liesman joined CNBC from The Wall Street Journal where he served as a senior economics reporter covering monetary policy, international economics, academic research and productivity. At the Wall Street Journal, Liesman previously worked as an energy reporter and, from 1996-98, as the Journal's Moscow bureau chief. He was a member of the reporting team recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for stories chronicling the crash of the Russian financial markets.

Prior to joining the Journal in 1994, Liesman was the business editor for The Moscow Times, where, as the founding business editor for the country's first English language daily newspaper, he helped create the publication's stock index, which was the country's first. Liesman has also worked as a business reporter for both the St. Petersburg Times in St. Petersburg, Fl., and The Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Fl.

Liesman holds a M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in English from the State University of New York, Buffalo.

-- cnbc.com