Damian was educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire with His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho and His Royal Highness Prince Seeiso, and has enjoyed close connections with Lesotho for more than 30 years.
He worked as Legislative Assistant to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington DC, before joining MJ Gleeson Group plc as head of joint venture development and contracting. After ten years at MJ Gleeson, Damian left to become a director of Thorncliffe Mining, a mining group with operations in sub-Saharan and West Africa.
