Erin Burnett

News Anchor 

Burnett anchors CNBC's "Street Signs" (2-3 pm ET) and co-anchors CNBC's "Squawk on the Street," (9-11 am ET) with Mark Haines. She also appears regularly on NBC's "Today" and "Meet the Press" and is a contributor on MSNBC's "Morning Joe".

Burnett joined CNBC from Bloomberg Television where she anchored two hours of programming daily. Prior to Bloomberg, Burnett served as Vice President at Citigroup, where she built an online financial news network targeted at institutional and retail investors.

Burnett also has worked at CNN as a writer and booker for CNN's Moneyline. She began her career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. as an investment-banking analyst focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. She was a member of the team awarded the 2006 Deadline Club Award for Business Reporting.

Burnett is focused on global business reporting. She has hosted her live shows from five different continents and all of the BRICs. She's also filed special reports from Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Her work includes several primetime documentaries, "India Rising: The New Empire", "City of Money and Mystery", "The Russian Gamble", On Assignment: Iraq and "Dollars & Danger: Africa, The Final Investment Frontier."

Burnett is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was selected as one of Fortune's Top 40 Under 40 in 2009.