Trish Regan

Trish Regan (born March 8, 1977) is an American television host, Emmy nominated investigative journalist, and author. She previously hosted CNBC's The Call, (weekdays from 11 am - Noon EST), was the creator and host of CNBC's two most highly rated documentaries, and provides regular commentary and reporting for NBC's Nightly News,The Today Show, MSNBC and The Chris Matthews Show. Her forthcoming book on America’s emerging marijuana industry is entitled "Joint Ventures: Inside America's Almost Legal Marijuana Industry", and will be published in April 2011 by John Wiley & Sons. http://www.amazon.com/Joint-Ventures-Americas-Marijuana-Industry/dp/0470559071

Regan has covered a series of global economic stories for CNBC and NBC News including the U.S. banking collapse of 2008 and the subsequent recession. In 2010, from Portugal, she reported on the European debt crisis. At the G-8 summit in Germany, she focused on U.S.–Russia relations. She has also reported on Brazil's economic boom and challenges, the potential advantages of the Canadian sub-artic oil sands and traveled to Bogotá, Colombia where she interviewed President Álvaro Uribe and reported from the infamous city of Medellín for a look at extreme emerging market investing. For CNBC, Regan also reported on the link between piracy and terrorist organizations from Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, a region in South America known as the Tri-Border, considered one of the most dangerous in world.

Regan’s in-depth special on the underground marijuana industry, "Marijuana Inc.: Inside America’s Pot Industry", became the most watched special in CNBC's history. According to networks advertisements for her sequal documentary, 38 million people viewed her first special, making Regan's documentary the most watched CNBC original program ever produced. Her sequel became the network's second most highly watched program. For her reporting, Regan was nominated for a Best Documentary Emmy Award. Regan also earned a Gerald Loeb nomination for documentary team work on “Against the Tide: The Battle for New Orleans” – an investigative piece on the New Orleans Levy system, post Katrina.

Regan joined CNBC from CBS News where she was a correspondent reporting for the CBS Evening News She also contributed to Face the Nation and 48 Hours Regan's focus at CBS was the U.S. economy. She reported on economic policy issues including healthcare, privatizing social security, and government pensions. Regan also reported extensively on Latin American political and economic affairs including a series on terrorist fundraising in South America. Her work on the terror connection between the Tri-Border region of South America and Islamic terrorist groups earned her an Emmy for Investigative Reporting in 2007. Additionally, Regan covered prominent National events including the Enron scandal, the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, the 2006 State of the Union address, and the three major hurricanes to hit the U.S. in 2005: Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

Previously, Regan was a correspondent for MarketWatch. In 2002, her work at CBS MarketWatch earned her The Most Outstanding Young Broadcast Journalist Under 30 Award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. While at CBS MarketWatch, she contributed to CBS News and reported and anchored for the CBS-owned station in San Francisco. Prior to that, Regan was a correspondent at Bloomberg Television.

Personal life

Regan began her career working at Goldman Sachs in emerging debt markets covering Latin America, and at the hedge fund, D.E. Shaw & Co. Regan has said she never intended to have a career in either finance or news — instead, she grew up believing she would pursue a career in opera.

The 1993 Miss New Hampshire in the Miss America pageant, Regan won the first annual Bernard Wayne award (Wayne was the composer of the theme song 'There She Is, Miss America') for the contestant with the most promise in the performing arts. Regan won her title at the age of 20, which indicates that her stated birth year of 1977 is incorrect. Regan studied classical voice in Graz, Austria and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston before enrolling at Columbia. While still in high school, Regan was awarded first place in the Harvard Musical Association's competition.

In April 2006, the Houston Chronicle named her one of ten women in broadcast news to watch and stated, "she shows exceptional ability to report. She's a future star". In August 2009, Regan’s name was the clue to the NY Times Crossword Puzzle. The clue was: “CNBC Host Trish_.” In 2010, Regan made the list of “Top 30 Irish Americans in Media.”

Regan is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her forthcoming book "Joint Ventures: Inside America's Almost Legal Marijuana Industry", http://www.amazon.com/Joint-Ventures-Americas-Marijuana-Industry/dp/0470559071 will be released in April 2011 by John Wiley & Sons. Prior to the premiere of her documentary, Marijuana USA, she told a marijuana blog, "I have not tried marijuana. I've never smoked a cigarette."

She and her husband, an investment banker, were married in 2001. They live in New York with their twin infant daughters.

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