Author: Beth Kobliner
Born: 1965
Dates: September 2009
Bio: Beth Kobliner is a personal finance expert, magazine columnist, and commentator who offers practical advice and insight on a wide range of economic and financial matters. She is author of the New York Times best-seller Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, and has made multiple appearances on Oprah, CNN, NPR, and NBC's Today show. She appeared in and was a script consultant for the PBS program "Your Life, Your Money." She has been a columnist at Glamour, a staff writer at Money magazine, and a contributor to The New York Times. She has testified before a U.S. Senate policy committee on young people's attitudes toward Social Security and has spoken at the Center for American Progress on the hazards of credit card debt. She sits on the board of the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) and was a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' National Commission on Retirement Policy. A graduate of Brown University, she lives in New York with her husband and three children.