Amber Brantsen

Amber Brantsen (born 9 September 1989) is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster and journalist. She is the studio presenter of the Swedish pay streaming service Viaplay's coverage of Formula One motor racing in the Netherlands. Brantsen has worked for the radio stations Unity FM, NPO 3FM, NPO Radio 1 as a newsreader and read the news on the daily news programme NOS Journaal.

Early life

Brantsen was born on 9 September 1989 in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Her father is from the Netherlands and her mother is from Suriname. Brantsen's grandmother is an original descendant of Suriname and her grandfather was of Chinese-Suriname descent. Her parents were divorced when she was young and she was brought up by her mother in Zoetermeer. Brantsen was educated at the De Springplank primary school, and cited the journalists Annechien Steenhuizen and Astrid Kersseboom as role models. She studied public administration at Leiden University from 2009 to 2014, having also studied for a degree in Media and Culture in Amsterdam.

Career

While studying at university, she worked as a radio broadcaster at the local Leiden broadcaster Unity FM and as a freelance newsreader at Omroep West after being discovered by them. Brantsen worked as an editor and newsreader at Bureau Regio between August 2014 and January 2015. She got an internship at the domestic desk at Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS). Brantsen read the news on the radio station NPO 3FM on the programme NOS op 3. In January 2016, she began co-presenting the NPO Radio 1 morning programme Radio 1 Journaal with Jurgen van den Berg. Brantsen's final programme was on 25 July 2017, and also broadcast on the radio station Kermis FM until July 2017.