Sir Nicholas Lloyd



Sir Nicholas was educated at Bedford Modern School and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. During his Oxford career he edited Cherwell, the university newspaper.

He began his career in journalism as a reporter on the Daily Mail and then became education correspondent of the Sunday Times. He joined Rupert Murdoch’s Sun where he became news editor and assistant editor in charge of features. In 1982 he become editor of the Sunday People before returning two years later to Rupert Murdoch as editor of the News of the World. He was responsible for changing Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper from a broadsheet to a tabloid and raising copies by 800,000 an issue.

He moved to New York with News International where he worked across their media interests – magazines, newspapers, film and television. He studied on the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. He returned to Britain and became editor of the Daily Express, steering the newspaper through choppy commercial waters with integrity and flair for 10 years.

He was knighted in 1989 for services to journalism in Margaret Thatcher’s resignation honours list.

In 1997 he founded Brown Lloyd James with Howell James, who later became Permanent Secretary in charge of Government Communications, and New York-based PR expert Peter Brown.

Sir Nicholas has specialised in media affairs representing both the Telegraph Media Group and Associated Newspapers, owners of the Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Metro and the Mail on Sunday.

He also advises Forbes magazine, Al Jazeera English, Royal Opera House, Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Really Useful Group, and the Walt Disney Company. He has extensive business and political contacts.