Colvin is one of America’s preeminent business journalists, serving as FORTUNE Editorial Director, and reporting daily for the CBS Radio Network, where he is heard by some 7 million people each week. His broadcast appearances include interviews on ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight, CBS This Morning, CNN, NBC’s Today and PBS’s Nightly Business Report. He is also a frequent co-anchor on CNBC’s Squawk Box. Since joining FORTUNE in 1978, Colvin has written hundreds of articles for the magazine ranging from the infotech revolution to shareholder value imperatives. He has also served as moderator of FORTUNE’s well-known conferences, including the FORTUNE Global Forum, where he has interviewed Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Herb Kelleher, Peter Drucker and other business legends. Colvin graduated Harvard cum laude with a B.A. in economics, and received his M.B.A from New York University's Stern School.

Prior to joining Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE, Gibbs spent five years as a senior business correspondent for FOX News Channel, contributing and serving as a substitute anchor on Your World With Neil Cavuto and appearing as a regular panelist on Cavuto On Business. From 1992 to 1997, she was an anchor at CNBC, where she specialized in the credit and futures markets, and hosted such programs as Money Wheel and Minding Your Business. Prior to joining CNBC, Gibbs spent nearly ten years at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., where she was a vice president and senior futures strategist. She began her career at the Chicago Board of Trade as a board marker and left as a member of the Office of Investigations and Audits. She received an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Chicago.

Michael Farr is president and majority owner of Farr, Miller & Washington, a Washington, D.C.-based nvestment firm that manages more than $400 million in assets. Prior to joining FM&W, he spent six years with Alex. Brown & Sons where he was a principal.

Farr regularly appears on Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE, often with insights on how politics and government regulation can affect the business world and investments. He can also be heard on Associated Press Radio and National Public Radio, and has been on Nightly Business Report, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg and Reuters.

He is a member of the National Economists Club and the Washington Association of Money Managers. In 1994, Mr. Farr was named one of the top ten "Outstanding Brokers" in the country. He was a consultant to the Soviet Union's St. Petersburg Stock Exchange and lectured in the USSR to heads of the various free markets from the former Soviet States and eastern bloc countries.

Farr is a graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is former Chairman and member of the Board of the Paul Berry Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Board of the Neediest Kids, the Executive Committee of Sibley Memorial Hospital, and is Treasurer of the Board of the Salvation Army. Mr. Farr is married and has two children.