Before, he worked as a Real Estate consultant, including service as Managing Director of DTZ Budapest, and later EC Harris Budapest. Durrant has been qulified as ASVA (Associate of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers) in 1994 and, on merging of ISVA and RICS, became MRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) in 2000.

He also served as Managing Director of the Business School from June 2009 to December 2010.

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
On 1 September 1983 by train from the UK - I can still remember it as if it was yesterday.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
Not for a long time, I spent 6 month in Richmond, Virginia

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
Certain literature - which I had been told was still illegal in Hungary - was widely available on the bookshelves in Budapest.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
Depends of the time of the year - a Saturday morning in Lukács bath for sure.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Hegyes eros paprika

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Cheese

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Tárgyalóképes (fluency)

8. What do you miss the most from home?
Young's Bitter / Real Ale

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Chef

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
To be a member of the Royal Family.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
In Tunisia - but wouldn't go again

12. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
South Africa - hopefully to cooincide with the football world cup

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Might be the same these days. Clockwork Orange - read the book then saw the movie, which was a good film adaptation. Hobby: played rugby for 33 years. Music: Iron Maiden

14. What can't you resist?
A genuine smile

15. Red wine or white?
If I had to choose then Red - but beer is the drink of preference

16. Book or movie?
Book

17. Morning person or night person?
Morning

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
So many to choose from - availability of education

19. Buda side or Pest side?
Buda - I've always lived around the same area of Buda.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Never surrender!