Ron Insana is a senior analyst for CNBC on the major stories of the day, economic and political policy issues, markets and global economics. He is also a regular contributor to MSNBC and NBC.

Insana has landed exclusive interviews with Presidents Bush and Clinton, and Vice-Presidents Cheney and Gore. He hosted the first-ever television interviews with every Treasury Secretary since Robert Rubin (including Rubin, Summers, O'Neil and Snow.) Insana has also landed exclusive interviews with several billionaire investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros, Stanley Druckenmiller, Julian Robertson and others. He has also interviewed the nation's most respected CEOs, from Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt, to Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, A.G. Lafley, and Richard Grasso.

Insana joined CNBC in the 1991 merger with the Financial News Network. He is a regular contributor to NBC's Today Show and The Nightly News with Brian Williams, as well as Imus in the Morning and Market Wrap on sister network MSNBC, and other programs when market activity warrants.

Insana began his career in 1984 as an FNN production assistant, rising to managing editor and chief of FNN's Los Angeles bureau at the time the two networks combined. While at FNN, he was nominated for a Golden ACE Award for his role in covering the 1987 stock market crash. Trend Watching: How to Avoid Wall Street's Next Fads, Manias and Bubbles, his third book, was published by Harpers Business in November, 2002. His first book, Traders' Tales (John Wiley), a compendium of anecdotes about Wall Street Life, was published in 1996. His second book, The Message of the Markets, was published by Harpers Business in October 2000.

Insana was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award as part of NBC's coverage of 9-11, and in 1999, Insana was named one of the top 100 business news journalists of the century by TJFR Group.

Currently, Insana is developing his own financial newsletter, has formed Insana Information Partners and is working to start another new business.

Insana graduated with honors from California State University at Northridge.