Sara Aliza Eisen (born August 7, 1984) is an American financial news anchor for

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Education

Eisen attended Seven Hills School in

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, graduating in 2002. She then attended

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as an undergraduate and completed her graduate studies at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

Career

Eisen worked for

Bloomberg Television Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by diversified information and media private company Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, re ...

where she was initially a

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host and subsequently the television co-anchor of ''Bloomberg Surveillance''. In 2013, she was hired by

to co-host ''

Worldwide Exchange ''Worldwide Exchange'' is a television business news program on CNBC channels around the world. It used to be broadcast live from studios on three continents until May 11, 2012. The programme is anchored by Frank Holland and is produced at CNB ...

'' and ''

Squawk on the Street ''Squawk on the Street'', which debuted on December 19, 2005, is a business show on CNBC that follows the first 90 minutes of trading on Wall Street in the United States. Originally airing as a one-hour program, the show doubled its airtime ...

''. On March 12, 2018, Brian Sullivan replaced Eisen (and co-anchor Wilfred Frost) as anchor of ''Worldwide Exchange''. Eisen, in turn, replaced Sullivan on ''Power Lunch''. On November 29, 2018, Eisen and Frost began co-anchoring ''

Closing Bell ''Closing Bell'' can refer to two CNBC programs: the original ''Closing Bell'' on CNBC (which debuted on February 4, 2002) and ''European Closing Bell'' on CNBC Europe (which was cancelled on December 18, 2015). The show is named after the be ...

''. She continued to co-anchor ''Squawk on the Street'' until June 22, 2020. In March 2023, she returned to ''

'' as co-presenter, and from December 2023 she also co-hosted ''Money Matters'', which occupies the third hour of ''Squawk on the Street''.

Personal life

Eisen is married to Matthew Levine, the former head of US programming at

. Together, they have two children. Her grandfather is a

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survivor. Eisen serves on

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's North American regional board.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eisen, Sara 1984 births Living people New York University alumni Northwestern University alumni American broadcast news analysts Television personalities from Cincinnati CNBC people NBC News people Jewish American journalists American business and financial journalists