With over a decade of experience in strategic communications and stakeholder relations, he previously worked in global media relations at Squire Patton Boggs. Before this, he was External Relations & Outreach Manager at the Inns of Court of England and Wales, where he launched a number of campaigns and outreach programs that have since been incorporated as best practice across the sector. Mr Dursi also has substantial higher education experience. He was Head of Civic Responsibility & Senior Advisor at the Russell Group of Universities, which represents the largest research-intensive universities in the UK, and worked in the executive offices at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Arts and at McGill University. He was a founding Trustee of the Bridge Group, a social mobility think tank, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. He has researched and written extensively on social mobility and access to higher education and the professions. Mr Dursi is a graduate of McGill University (Great Distinction) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (Distinction).