Larry Kudlow is host of CNBC's primetime "The Kudlow Report" and the co-host of CNBC's "The Call". He hosts "The Larry Kudlow Show" on WABC Radio on Saturday mornings. He is also the founder and CEO of Kudlow and Company, LLC, an economic research and consulting firm.

Education:
Kudlow was educated at the University of Rochester and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Personal:
He is an avid tennis player and golfer. He and his wife Judy live in New York City and Redding, Connecticut.

Background:
Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist and also hosts his own blog. He is a contributing editor of National Review magazine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Review Online. He is the author of "American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity," published by Forbes in January 1998. He is a Distinguished Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.

 For many years Kudlow served as chief economist for a number of Wall Street firms. He was a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee. During President Reagan's first term, Kudlow was the associate director for economics and planning, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, where he was engaged in the development of the administration's economic and budget policy.

He is a trusted advisor to many of our nation's top decision-makers in Washington and has testified as an expert witness on economic matters before several congressional committees. He has also presented testimony at several Republican Governors Conferences.

Kudlow began his career as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, working in the areas of domestic open market operations and bank supervision.