Erin Burnett

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Erin Burnett

Erin Burnett is co-anchor of the CNBC program, Squawk on the Street. She and Mark Haines host the program from a set overlooking the New York Stock Exchange. In addition to Squawk on the Street, she also anchors the network's 2pm ET program Street Signs.

Prior to joining CNBC in 2005, Burnett worked at Bloomberg Television, where she served as anchor of Bloomberg on the Markets, covering the stock market open and newsmaker interviews, and In Focus, where she broke down the day's top business story.

Prior to Bloomberg Television, Burnett served as Vice President for CitiMedia/Citigroup, where she was responsible for all anchoring of their online financial news network founded by Citigroup.

Burnett also has worked at CNN as a writer and booker for CNN's Moneyline with Stuart Varney, Willow Bay, and Lou Dobbs.

Burnett is approximately 32 years of age in the year 2006.

Burnett began her career at Goldman Sachs as an analyst in their investment banking division, where she worked on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and is a graduate of St. Andrew's School.