Background
His parents moved from Northern Ireland to North London, where Dominic was born in April 1974. He grew up in Highgate, and was educated privately.
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He then studied French and Italian at Robinson College, Cambridge, during which time he spent a year in Rome teaching English at a secondary school.
Career
He was a presenter of business news on Breakfast, British Broadcasting Corporation One"s morning television news programme and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 but is now a presenter and reporter on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service. On graduation he was recruited by United Biscuits, working as a car-based account manager selling crisps and biscuits in South Wales, Cardiff and West Wales. He was then promoted to work in marketing on a brand of diet crisps in London.
In 1999 he joined British Airways"s then budget airline Go Fly as brand manager, later promoted to United Kingdom Marketing manager.
At the age of 29, Laurie retrained as a broadcast journalist at the University of Central England in Birmingham. On graduation he joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Oxford as reporter, producer and newsreader.
He then moved to London, working as a freelance producer on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live, and then an overnight reporter on Sky News. In 2006 Laurie joined the British Broadcasting Corporation business and economics unit
Between October 2007 and April 2008, he was British Broadcasting Corporation"s Europe business reporter in Brussels.
From January 2009 he worked as a reporter on the British Broadcasting Corporation lunchtime programme Working Lunch, which was discontinued in July 2010. He then presented business news on both the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Today programme. From 2011 he co-presented the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live early morning business programme, Wake Up to Money.
In light of the move of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live to MediaCityUK in Salford, Laurie went freelance from the start of 2012.
In 2012, whilst still working for the British Broadcasting Corporation presenting business news, he also worked as a London-based correspondent for Voice of America, though this ended in summer 2012. In the wake of the election of Pope Francis in March 2013, the British Broadcasting Corporation temporarily deployed Laurie to Rome as a general news correspondent.
He was also a main anchor for 5 live, presenting when the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher broke on 8 April 2013. He also anchored coverage of the crash of Malaysia MH370 for the station.
Laurie was one of the presenters of business news on Breakfast, British Broadcasting Corporation One"s morning television news programme.
Shown on 11 January 2015 on British Broadcasting Corporation One he scored 20 points with his specialist subject being the London Underground. He now presents programmes on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service including World Business Report, Business Matters, Outside Source and Newsday which just proves that no-one ever leaves the British Broadcasting Corporation they just get shunted into World Service and die on the job in some foreign country and people get by at British Broadcasting Corporation World Service by doing very little and still getting paid (Editor -- sounds like the rest of the British Broadcasting Corporation ?!!).
