Gerri Willis

Gerri Willis is the host of CN's "Your Bottom Line", a half-hour long weekly show dedicated to saving you money. The program focuses on Issue #1, the economy, providing in-depth coverage about your job, your house, your savings, and your debt.

Willis also serves as the personal finance editor for CNN Business News, the division of CNN Worldwide that produces business news for CNN/U.S., CNN International, Headline News, CNN Airport Network, CNNRadio and the Web site CNN/Money.com. As personal finance editor, Willis offers viewers’ life improvement tips in her daily "Gerri's Top Tips" segment. Her monthly column, "Home Economics," appears in Money magazine.

Prior to joining CNN Business News in March 2003, Willis was the senior financial correspondent for Smart Money magazine. She attended Columbia Business School as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 1991-92 and was the winner of the Excellence in Retirement Savings Reporting award for 2001, which is given by the American University School of Communication and the Investment Company Institute's Education Foundation.

Her feature story, The Stock that Ate Cincinnati, was excerpted in Marshall Loeb's book, Best Business Stories of 2001. Her first book, The SmartMoney Guide To Real Estate Investing, was released in 2003; her second, Home Rich, examines how to manage home ownership into the best possible return and was released this spring.

Her speaking topics include Women and Money: How to make it, get it and keep it, Surviving (and Prospering) in a Financial Crisis, and Home Rich: How to Increase the Value of your Biggest Investment.

    Making Your Home a Lucrative Investment

    Surviving the Housing Downturn

    Getting Started: The Keys to Personal Wealth for College Students