Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Since January 2009, she has occasionally hosted Closing Bell when the anchor is unavailable. She has also hosted Options Action, and is now the host of Consumer News and Business Channel"s 5pm ET daily show Fast Money and Money in Motion: Currency Trading. She was the interim host after Ratigan"s departure, until April of the same year when she was appointed permanent host.
Melissa has hosted 5 Consumer News and Business Channel documentaries:
Made in China: The People"s Republic of Profit
Coca Cola: The Real Story Behind the Real Thing
Porn: Business of Pleasure
The $50M Con
Code Wars: America"s Cyber Threat
As of 2013, Melissa Lee hosts 3 Consumer News and Business Channel programs: Fast Money, Options Action, and Money in Motion: Currency Trading.
Since February 9, 2015, Lee is one of four hosts for Power Lunch. Lee"s father graduated from Columbia University and then moved to Great Neck, New New York
Lee grew up idolizing New York news anchor Kaity Tong, who inspired Lee to become a reporter. Lee started her professional journalism career as a reporter for her hometown newspaper, the Great Neck Record.
She graduated with honors from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in Government in 1995.
She also served as Assistant Managing Editor of the Harvard Crimson. Prior to joining Consumer News and Business Channel in 2004, Lee worked for Bloomberg Television and Cable News Network Financial News. Before her career in television, Lee was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting.
Her cases focused on the banking and cr card sectors.