Claire Bolderson came to the job of presenting via foreign reporting, first as a correspondent for the BBC and Financial Times in the early 1990s in Indonesia. This was followed by a three and a half year stint in the Washington Bureau as North America Correspondent for BBC World Service Radio and Television.

When she returned to Britain in 1997 Claire, who was born in London and educated at Oxford University, began presenting news programmes for World Service working on Newshour and as one of the launch presenters for the morning programme, The World Today.

She continues to travel regularly to report for and present programmes from abroad, particularly from the United States. She's also kept up an interest in Indonesia, presenting live coverage of the country's first democratic elections in 1999 and returning two years later to report on the progress of the new democracy. Claire started presenting regularly for the World Tonight in 1999 and now splits her time between Radio 4 and World Service, presenting The World Tonight and Newshour each twice a week.