Elizabeth Anne Lloyd CBE (born 1971) served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Prime Minister Tony Blair's last administration (2005-2007).

Lloyd attended Guildford Grammar School (others include former Government minister James Purnell, and communications manager Tim Allan)^[1] and Clare College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a BA in Law and History^[2] in 1993.

Lloyd began working for Tony Blair when he became Labour Leader in 1994. After Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, she became his home-affairs advisor. She later worked in the Foreign Policy area in the Number 10 Policy Unit "the powerhouse of New Labour ideas".^[3] She held a number of key coordinating roles in Number 10, and became Deputy Chief of Staff in 2005^[2] with responsibility for much of the domestic policy agenda.

In 2007 she joined Standard Chartered and was later appointed Group Head of Public Affairs.^[2] Standard Chartered is a London based bank with a focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East.^[4] From 2013 to 2015 she was CEO of Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania. In 2015 she was elected Vice-Chair of the Tanzanian Bankers Association. She is now based in London and holds the position of Group Company Secretary at Standard Chartered.^[2]

During her early years in politics her partner was the Labour leader Ed Miliband.^[1] Married in 2002, she departed No. 10 in 2005 when pregnant with her first child. She now has two children. Lloyd was made a CBE in the 2008 New Year's Honours list.^[2]

Lloyd became a trustee of The Tony Blair Governance Initiative charity in 2009,^[5] and later became Chair of Trustees.^[6]