Elise Doganieri is a ten-time Emmy Award-winning producer best known for cocreating and executive producing CBS’s reality TV juggernaut The Amazing Race. Elise and her husband Bertram van Munster run World Race Productions, Inc., an award-winning, full-service production company that develops and produces programming for the worldwide marketplace. Since launching in 2001, The Amazing Race has aired nearly 400 episodes and is seen in more than eighty countries. Elise’s production company also oversees the international versions of the show in Canada, China, Israel, Australia, and South America. For The Amazing Race, Doganieri has earned ten Emmy Awards, three Producers Guild Awards, a DGA award, a GLAAD Award, and a Television Critics award. Elise lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Bertram van Munster, and their daughter, Ava.