BREAKING. Michelle Caruso-Cabrera named chief international correspondent for CNBC.

Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is a familiar face on CNBC Africa (DStv 410) and now she has been named chief international correspondent of CNBC in this newly-created position.

Viewers saw Michelle Caruso-Cabrera last month reporting live from Athens reporting on Greece's debt woes and interpreting Europe's growing financial debt crisis.

Now she will be responsible for reporting on the global economy, jetting to financial hotspots around the world.