Professor Bruce Lloyd spent more than 20 years in industry and finance before joining the academic world a decade ago to help establish the Management Centre at what is now South Bank University. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering and a M.Sc. (Economics)/MBA from the London Business School. He was awarded his Ph.D. (by published work) in 1996 for his work on The Future of Offices and Office Work: Implications for Organisational Strategy.

Bruce’s industry experience included time with BP and the Commonwealth Development Finance Company, where he was concerned with investing in small companies in various parts of the world. During the 1980's he also worked with ICI plc’s New Ventures program. Over the past twenty years, he has been on the Executive Board of the Strategic Planning Society and a Council Member of the Chartered Management Institute. He was a member of the latter's Advisory Board for a research project on Leadership: A Challenge for All and is still involved in a development of that project specifically concerned with leadership issues in the public sector. He was involved in a Royal Society of Arts study on the future of the Professions, and has been actively involved, as a past Chairman, with the Association of MBA's.

Since the late 1960's Bruce has written extensively on a wide range of strategy issues, such as 'Economies of Scale', 'Energy Policy', and the link between power, responsibility, leadership and learning. More recently, he has been exploring the relationship between wisdom and knowledge management. He has published more than 30 interviews with leading thinkers on leadership in Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, as well as interviews for the Tomorrow Project Bulletin. Bruce was the UK coordinator for The Millennium Project operated by the American Council for the UN University 1998-2004. He now focuses on lecturing, researching, and writing on strategy and futures-related subjects.