Lloyd graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2011 majoring in History. At Columbia and LSE, he wrote his thesis on Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu, a Black Brazilian abolitionist and civil rights campaigner who lived in Boston in the mid-1800s. After finishing, he went on to work in political risk consulting and international development for four years before eventually returning to academia and undertaking a PhD in History at the University of Leeds, UK. There, his thesis examined the inter-American dynamics of Black abolitionism and civil rights in the nineteenth century, and some of his research featured in major news outlets, including the BBC. He is currently a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Glasgow where he is developing a $400,000 research project entitled 'West African Mariners and the Making of the Atlantic World'. In between family life, Lloyd still finds time for hiking, fishing and other leisurely pursuits.
