Gerri Willis

CNN Business Anchor, Columnist, and Author

Gerri Willis is the anchor of CNN's weekend business program, Open House, a half-hour long weekly real estate show which presents a how-to approach on all things real estate. Willis' latest book is a timely publication titled Home Rich: Increasing the Value of the Biggest Investment of Your Life.

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 5 Tips segment.

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 book, The Smart Money Guide To Real Estate Investing, was released in 2003.