Steve Liesman Biography
Steve Liesman is an American award-winning journalist working as CNBC’s senior economics reporter, covers the entire economy, including the Federal Reserve and major economic indicators. Throughout the business day, he appears on “Squawk Box” and other CNBC programs.
How old is Steve Liesman? – Age
He is 60 years old as of 21 May 2023. He was born in 1963 in Bronxville, New York, United States.
Steve Liesman Education
Liesman graduated from Edgemont High School in Scarsdale, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Steve Liesman Wife – Family
He is married to Aaliyah Santelli. The couple has two sons whose names are not known.
Steve Liesman Career
Liesman worked as a business reporter for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and then the St. Petersburg Times from August 1987 to June 1992. In August 1992, he moved to Moscow, Russia, to work as the founding business editor of the Moscow Times, Russia’s first English-language daily newspaper. He established the Moscow Times Index, Russia’s first stock index. In 1994, Liesman joined The Wall Street Journal’s Moscow bureau, and in August 1996, he was promoted to Moscow bureau chief. In May 1998, he moved to the New York bureau and began covering the international oil and gas industry. In June 2000, he was promoted to senior economics reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He focused on the productivity revolution, macroeconomics, and the myriad problems with corporate earnings reporting during his time at the Wall Street Journal. Before joining CNBC in April 2002, Liesman worked at the Wall Street Journal as a senior economics reporter, covering domestic and global economies, corporate earnings, and the Enron accounting scandal.
Liesman was a member of the WSJ team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1999 for their in-depth analysis of the Russian financial crisis. For his four-part series “Markets Under Siege,” he received the first runner-up award in the 1998 SAIA – Novartis Prize for International Reporting. Journalists Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames criticized Liesman for his Pulitzer in the Nation, believing that Liesman’s overly optimistic economic outlook in the run-up to the Russian Financial Crisis was due to Liesman’s sourcing from controversial figures such as Anatoly Chubais and others in favor of the country’s ongoing privatization efforts. Steve Liesman is an amateur guitarist who plays regularly in a Grateful Dead cover band in addition to his duties as CNBC’s senior economics reporter. He also hosted the band’s three “Fare Thee Well” concerts in Chicago in July, which were broadcast on pay-per-view.
Steve Liesman’s Net Worth
Steve has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
