BIOGRAPHY
Christopher Lloyd graduated from Peterhouse Cambridge with a double first class degree in History. He then worked as a news reporter and subsequently became Technology Correspondent on
The Sunday Times. In 2000 he was hired to run Oxford-based education software company Immersive Education. In 2006 he was inspired to write his first book,
What on Earth Happened?, while he and his wife home-educated their two daughters. It went on to sell more than 500,000 copies and was translated into 15 languages.
In 2010 Lloyd founded children’s non-fiction publishing house What on Earth Publishing, along with illustrator Andy Forshaw, to help young people (and adults) learn about the real world in a more interconnected way. Lloyd teamed up with Sir Robert Worcester, the founder of market research company MORI, and U.S. publisher Nancy Feresten in 2015 to build the business in the U.S. and overseas. In 2019 the company created a joint venture with Encyclopedia Britannica and laun