Robert Lloyd
Dr. Robert B. Lloyd is associate professor of international relations, chair of the Center for International Studies and Languages Division, and coordinator for the international studies program at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.
Prior to Pepperdine, Dr. Lloyd worked for ten years in a number of leadership positions for an international development nongovernmental organization (NGO). He was an election observer for the United States Department of State and the United Nations during Mozambique's first multiparty elections to end the country's civil war. He was also an election observer in Nigeria during that country's first back-to-back democratic elections in 2003 and in Liberia in 2005 following its civil war that led to the collapse of the state. He has published articles in academic journals on international conflict resolution, been a consultant with Freedom House on issues of democratization, received grants for research on international issues from the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, and the Institute of International Education (oversees the Fulbright program), and regularly contributes op-eds on international topics to the Ventura County Star.
He received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, an M.R.P., in regional and economic development planning from Cornell University and a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Arizona.