Jim Boulden is a correspondent for CNN's international programming based in London, where he covers a wide range of business and news stories. Boulden reports from around Europe and the world, also reporting live from the London Stock Exchange for CNN's daily business programmes.
In January 2005 Boulden travelled to Istanbul, Turkey, to report on the growing industrial strength of the country as it tried to prove its worth to join the European Union. A year earlier Boulden reported from Beirut on the Summer 2004 OPEC meeting as the price of oil was soaring and OPEC announced a rise in production to help cool the price.
Boulden joined CNN‘s London Bureau in November 1995 as a package producer, following which he covered stories such as the dot com explosion, the market crash of 1997 in Russia and Asia and the introduction of the Euro. In 1999 and 2000 Boulden produced a number of packages around Europe for CNN’s weekly show ‘Business Unusual’. Then in 2000 to 2001, he became producer of CNN’s ‘Your Business Your World’ which included covering Aids from Uganda, credit for the poor from Bangladesh and the blood diamonds debate from South Africa. Boulden was also assigned for three months to the CNN Investigation Team after 9-11 and produced and reported on the aftermath in Europe. This included numerous arrests around Britain under the controversial terrorism laws and the struggles of Britain's Muslim community post 9-11. In 2002 Boulden was part of the CNN team to win a 2001 First Place Headliner News Award for the ‘Attack On America’ continuing series of reporting.
Prior to joining CNN, Boulden worked as a business producer and correspondent for Reuters TV. From 1990 to 1995 he travelled extensively throughout Europe, covering stories such as the Gulf War and rebuilding of Kuwait, collapse of the Soviet Union, EC 92 and Maastricht Treaty, reunification of Germany and the dawn of the World Wide Web. Before his transfer to London with Reuters, Boulden worked in Washington DC on the PBS premier business programme ‘The Nightly Business Report’.
Boulden was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated in 1986 with a BS in Telecommunications (minor in Political Science) from Kutztown University, Pennsylvania 1986.
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