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Melissa Francis

Melissa Francis is a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service and currently serves as a Senior Advisor for the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL). She currently advances the Agency’s efforts to develop a new Policy, Resource, and Performance Bureau (PRP); Redefine our Development Relationship (RDR) with partner countries; and establish the new Development Finance Corporation. She also leads many of PPL’s Agency management roles, including serving as the Agency’s Deputy Program Management Improvement Officer and a voting member of the Management Operations Council.

Ms. Francis has more than 20 years of U.S. Government and international development experience. She has served with USAID as acting Mission Director, Program Office Director, and Supervisory Health Officer in Timor-Leste, Haiti, El Salvador, the Regional Development Mission for Asia, and the Bureau for Global Health (GH).

Before joining USAID, she was a member of the senior management team for Tamarac, Florida, where she provided leadership for city-wide programs and operations, and man

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Melissa Francis, anchor of MONEY with Melissa Francis and Markets Now on the Fox Business Network, did not get her start on television in news. At the age of eight, she played Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on the world's most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie, working alongside 1980s icons Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Jason Bateman. In her book Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter, Melissa recounts her life as a child star in the 1980s, a life wholly controlled by a highly neurotic and dangerously competitive "tiger mother." Now the mother of two young boys herself, Melissa reflects not only on her past but on the subject of parenthood and the impact of relentlessly driving a child to succeed, an approach that sent Melissa's sister into a deadly spiral. “What I have learned from a difficult childhood is that, no matter what has happened in the past, you can take charge of your life and be happy. Your life is your own. In fact, a tough past is actually a richness of experience to draw upon. You know what doesn't work,” says Mel

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Melissa Francis

Melissa Francis joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as an anchor in January 2012. She is the host of "MONEY with Melissa Francis" (5 PM/ET & 12 AM/ET), a program that breaks down the day's top stories and how they impact the American taxpayer.

Prior to joining FBN, Francis served as an anchor at CNBC, where she co- anchored "Power Lunch" and "The Call." When Francis joined CNBC in 2003, she was the first reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, providing hourly reports for the network and distinguishing herself as the foremost expert on commodities.

Before joining CNBC, Francis was a correspondent for CNET's broadcast unit, where she covered finance, technology and consumer products. Prior to CNET, Francis was a reporter for News 12 New Jersey, and anchored for many New England television stations in Hartford, Manchester, and Providence. She also served as producer for WCSH-TV NBC Portland and researcher for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.

Francis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Harvard University.