CARL QUINTANILLA
"Squawk on the Street" Co-Anchor


Carl Quintanilla is an Emmy award-winning reporter and one of the principal anchors of CNBC's “Squawk on the Street” (M-F, 9-12 p.m. ET) broadcast live from the New York Stock Exchange.

Previously, Quintanilla was co-anchor of "Squawk Box," (M-F, 6-9 a.m. ET) CNBC’s signature morning program.

Quintanilla has reported one-hour documentaries for the network including, “BMW: A Driving Obsession,” “Big Mac: Inside the McDonald’s Empire,” “Trash Inc: The Secret Life of Garbage,” “The Oprah Effect” and “American Originals: Levi’s.”  He is also the correspondent for the CNBC series “Crime Inc.”

Quintanilla appears frequently on NBC’s “Today” and “Nightly News.”

Prior to joining CNBC, Quintanilla was an NBC News correspondent based in New York and Chicago, appearing regularly on "Today" and "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams." In 2005, he spent weeks in New Orleans as part of the "Nightly News" team coverage of Hurricane Katrina, for which he won a national Emmy Award, an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow award, and broadcast’s highest honor, the Peabody Award.

He has covered a wide range of international stories – from the Beijing Olympics to the wars in Iraq and Israel - as well as domestic stories, from California forest fires to the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign.

Prior to joining NBC, Quintanilla served as co-anchor for CNBC’s early-morning program, "Wake Up Call." He also spent six years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Colorado.