Bridi is Founder and CEO of Development Intelligence Lab - a think tank working on development cooperation in the Indo-Pacific – and Founding Co-convenor of the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue. In a previous life, Bridi oversaw Australian bilateral legal cooperation programs as a Director at the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, ran public sector consulting gigs as a Senior Manager for Ernst & Young and represented Australia’s leading NGOs to Government as a Director of the Australian Council for International Development.

In 2021, Bridi was the national awardee of the Fulbright Scholarship in Not-For Profit Leadership and has current non-resident affiliations with Washington D.C. based Centre for Strategic International Studies and the Australian National University’s RegNet.