Steve Liesman, senior economics reporter for CNBC, is an Emmy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

He regularly appears on CNBC programs including “Squawk Box” and “Squawk Alley,” reporting on international economic activity, including the United States Federal Reserve and major economic indicators.

Liesman, formerly a senior economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was part of a team awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on economic struggles in Russia in the 1990s. He joined CNBC in 2002 and was one of several NBC correspondents and producers who won an Emmy Award for coverage of the U.S. financial crisis.

Earlier in his career, Liesman was founding business editor of The Moscow Times, Liesman also has worked as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in St. Petersburg and The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, both in Sarasota, Fl.

The Ratner Distinguished Visiting Business Journalist Program brings a distinguished visitor each semester to Baruch College’s Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions.

Created with a gift from Forest City Ratner Companies and its founder and executive chairman Bruce Ratner, the program enables journalists to spend a week in residence, speaking in classes, mentoring students and meeting with the staff of Dollars & Sense, the department’s award-winning online magazine.

Forest City Ratner‘s major New York institutions include The New York Times Building and the Barclays Center.