Mr Lloyd has worked in housing policy across the public, private and voluntary sectors for more than 10 ten years, and was the Prime Minister’s special advisor on housing and local government until July 2019. Before entering government, he was head of policy for Shelter, the leading housing and homelessness charity, and led their proposal for new garden city that was the runner-up for the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014. Previously, he was a senior policy manager for the Greater London Authority where we worked on the Thames Gateway and the London 2012 Olympics. In 2017 he co-authored Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing, with two UCL economists.