John Lloyd

Who is John Lloyd?

John Lloyd is a journalist, presently contributing editor to the Financial Times, where he has been Labour Editor, Industrial editor, East European Editor and Moscow Bureau Chief.

Lloyd was born and raised in Anstruther, Fife, by his grandparents and mother, a beautician.

In the 1970s, Lloyd was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and later the British and Irish Communist Organisation. He then became a supporter of the Labour Party.

Lloyd became a freelance journalist in 1996, and worked as a columnist for The Times from 1997 to 1998 and a contributor to the New Statesman until 2003.

In the 1990s, Lloyd was one of several prominent members of Common Voice, a British group that advocated voting reform. Lloyd also supported the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, believing Trimble could help bring peace to Northern Ireland.

Lloyd,a strong supporter of the Blair government, also supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In 2006 he co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He is director of the Axess Programme on Journalism and Democracy.