Suze Orman

Suze Orman, has been called "a force in the world of personal finance" and a "one-woman financial advice powerhouse" by USA Today. A two-time Emmy award-winning television show host, New York Times bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and motivational speaker, Orman is undeniably America's most recognized personal finance expert.

Orman has written five consecutive New York Times bestsellers, The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke; The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life; The Road to Wealth; The Courage to Be Rich; and The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, as well as the national bestsellers, Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook and You've Earned It, Don't Lose It.

Her next book, Women & Money, will be published by Spiegel & Grau, a division of the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, in March 2007. A newspaper column, also called "Women & Money," will be syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate beginning January 2007.

Orman has written, co-produced, and hosted five PBS specials based on her New York Times bestselling books. She is the single most successful fundraiser in the history of Public Television, and recently won her second Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Service Show Host. Orman won her first Emmy in 2004, in the same category.

Orman is a contributing editor to O, The Oprah Magazine and O at Home and has a bi-weekly column, Money Matters, on Yahoo! Finance. Orman hosts her own award- winning national CNBC-TV show, The Suze Orman Show, which airs every Saturday night, as well as hosting her own Financial Freedom Hour on QVC television.

Orman has been honored with three American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Allen Awards. This award recognizes the nation's best radio, television, and cable programming for, by, and about women. In 2003, Orman garnered her first Gracie for The Suze Orman Show in the National/Network/Syndication Talk Show category. Orman won her second and third Gracies in the Individual Achievement: Program Host category in 2005 and 2006. In 2002, Orman was selected as one of five distinguished recipients of the prestigious TJFR Group News Luminaries Award, which honors lifetime achievement in business journalism.

Orman, a Certified Financial Planner®, directed the Suze Orman Financial Group from 1987-1997, served as vice president of investments for Prudential Bache Securities from 1983-87, and from 1980-83, was an account executive at Merrill Lynch. Prior to that, she worked as a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, California, from 1973-80.

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