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Dominic Laurie is a British radio and television business presenter.
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Early life
Born in April 1974, he grew up in Highgate in north London. His parents are both from Northern Ireland.
He studied French and Italian at Robinson College at Cambridge University, during the course spending a year out as an English teacher at a secondary school in Rome.
Career
He worked for five years in brand management, first at United Biscuits (UB), where he started out as a car salesman selling crisps and biscuits in Cardiff and West Wales, then moving to London to work in marketing on a brand of diet crisps. In 1999, he moved to the budget airline Go Fly as brand manager, after a while being appointed UK Marketing manager. When he joined it was a subsidiary of British Airways. It was then bought by the venture capital firm 3i, and in 2002 was then merged with easyJet.
Broadcasting
At the age of 29 he retrained as a broadcast journalist at the then University of Central England in Birmingham, and worked first for just over a year at BBC Radio Oxford as reporter, producer and newsreader. He then moved to London, working as a freelance producer on 5 Live and as an overnight reporter on the Sky news world news program. In 2006, he then became a full time journalist in the BBC business and economics unit.
Between October 2007 and April 2008, he was the BBC's Europe business reporter in Brussels. From January 2009 he worked as a reporter on the BBC lunchtime programme Working Lunch, which was discontinued in July 2010. He has also presented the business news on the BBC TV news channel and the business news on the Radio 4 program Today, in particular looking after the Friday boss interview.
In 2011 he co-presented the 5 Live early morning business programme, Wake Up to Money.
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Categories:- BBC Radio 5 Live presenters
- British business and financial journalists
- BBC newsreaders and journalists
- Living people
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