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About Kai Ryssdal
Before becoming the host of Marketplace Morning Report, Kai Ryssdal was a reporter and substitute host for The California Report,a news and information program distributed to public radio stations in California by KQED-FM in San Francisco.

During his tenure at KQED, he covered everything from business and the economy to capital punishment and agriculture. His work there won first place awards from the Radio and Television News Directors Association and the national Public Radio News Directors Association. After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta, Ryssdal spent eight years in the United States Navy, first flying from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and then as a Pentagon staff officer. He also was a member of the United States Foreign Service and served in Ottawa and Beijing.

Ryssdal is joined on the Marketplace Money team by Wendy Sykes and Chris Farrell. Wendy is the former producer of the public radio show Rewind and J.J. Yore, and is now the senior producer of public radio's top-rated Marketplace Money. Chris brings more than 25 years of experience in economics and personal finance journalism to Marketplace Money. The Marketplace Money team is hard at work, producing the show from the Marketplace studios in Los Angeles.