Fred is originally from Castries, Saint Lucia, where he attended Castries Comprehensive Secondary School and Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1998 and has lived in the UK since. Fred attended London South Bank University where he attained a BA (Hons) Urban & Environmental Planning and MA Town Planning and later attended the University of Southampton where he attained an MSc in Transport Planning & Engineering.

He has worked in various town planning or transport planning roles at local authorities in London and other geographies in the UK. Previous roles include Strategic Transport Manager at Thurrock Council and Principal Technical Planner at Transport for London (TfL), which is the strategic transport authority in London and an executive agency of the Mayor of London.