Synopsis

Rebecca Jarvis, an American financial journalist, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 14, 1981. She currently works for ABC News in New York as the Chief Business and Economics Correspondent. She was also a Season 4 finalist on The Apprentice.

Jarvis was born in Chicago to Gail Jarvis, a nationally syndicated financial columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and James T. Jarvis, a lawyer, and business consultant. She graduated in 1999 from St. Paul Academy and Summit School. Jarvis was a member of the “National Youth Leadership CouncilYouth “‘s Project Team during high school. Colin Powell, then Secretary of State, granted her one of the few interviews he gave.

Jarvis then enrolled at the University of Chicago, where he majored in economics and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Law, Letters, and Society in 2003. She also attended Sciences Po and Paris Dauphine University in Paris to study international economics and business.

Career

Jarvis began her career on Citigroup’s foreign exchange desk in London as a short-term interest rate trader. She then worked at Bank of America Securities in Chicago as an investment banking analyst. She left financial services after working in investment banking and foreign currency trading to pursue a career in journalism. Her first job in journalism was with Crain’s Chicago Business as a writer.

CNBC, a business news channel, announced Jarvis as their new associate reporter on March 7, 2006. She was assigned to work as a general assignment reporter at CNBC’s global headquarters. She primarily covered the NASDAQ, America’s second-largest stock exchange, and the NYMEX, a community futures exchange. Jarvis left CNBC in 2009, and her final appearance on the network was on September 18, 2009.

Jarvis was born in the year 2010. She had joined CBS News, primarily as a financial reporter, it was announced. She began on April 1st and went on to become the co-anchor of CBS This Morning Saturday as well as a CBS News Business and Economics Correspondent. On a broadcast of CBS This Morning Saturday on March 30, 2013, she announced her departure from CBS News.

Jarvis began working for ABC News in April 2013 and has remained there ever since. “Deeply knowledgeable about financial news, Rebecca is a versatile and aggressive reporter who will contribute enormously to every program and platform,” ABC News president Ben Sherwood said during the announcement of their new member. She is currently employed by ABC News in New York as the Chief Business and Economics Correspondent. Her salary is very lucrative, and her net worth is also very high.

Life in Personal Contex

Jarvis married Matthew Hanson, a fellow University of Chicago and Banc of America Securities colleague, at the McNamara Alumni Center in Minnesota on January 28, 2012. In December 2010, Hanson proposed to her on Chicago’s LaSalle Street. Her husband is a partner in the Woodside, Calif.-based GSV Asset Management’s New York office, where he is in charge of investing in high-growth technology companies.

Jarvis was named one of Teen People’s “20 Teens Who Will Change the World” in February 2000. She has raised more than $750,000 for her own non-profit children’s charity, which she founded when she was only 15 years old. She was also given a “Point of Light” award for her work with disenfranchised children and teenagers.