Matt Lloyd-Rose has worked as a carer, primary school teacher, volunteer police officer, and in leadership roles across the charity and social sectors. He is the author of Into the Night: A Year with the Police (Picador, 2023), The Character Conundrum: How to develop confidence, independence and resilience in the classroom (Routledge, 2018), and co-author, with Henry Eliot, of Curiocity: An Alternative A to Z of London (Particular Books, 2016). He is based in South London with his wife and two young children.