Lloyd Algernon Best, OCC (27 February 1934 – 19 March 2007) was a Trinidadian intellectual, columnist, professor, and economist.
He then won a Government Exhibition Scholarship to Queen's Royal College, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Even though he was in failing health, during the last two weeks before his death, Lloyd Best was hard at work with his colleague and fellow Tapia house member Eric St Cyr, completing his newest work, titled Economic Policy and Management Choices: A Contemporary Economic History of Trinidad and Tobago, 1950-52.
The aim of this group was to develop an indigenous theory that explains the dynamics of Caribbean economies and societies.
The second phase realises the abolition of the slave system and the introduction of wage labour in an indentured form.