Mark Lloyd

Mark Lloyd read Geography at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford and then completed a Masters in Environmental Water Management at Cranfield.  He founded Thames21 in 1994, a charity cleaning up London’s rivers, which he led for 11 years.  He has since been CEO of a number of angling and conservation organisations before taking up his current role in 2019 as Chief Executive of The Rivers Trust, the umbrella body for the rivers trust movement which comprises 67 independent charities in the UK and Ireland, employing over 550 staff.  Rivers Trusts work in partnership to restore wild, healthy, natural rivers, valued by all.