Mike Tuffrey is a non-executive director and adviser on corporate responsibility and sustainability. He has spent more than 30 years working in leadership positions across the public, private and voluntary sectors, helping organisations to change and achieve their goals more effectively. That makes him what Harvard professor Joseph Nye has called a “tri-sector athlete”  – though any association with sporting prowess in Mike’s case is sadly misplaced.

His most recent initiative is cofounding the Responsible Business Archives initiative, which aims to make available for future researchers the essential records of the responsible business movement over the last half century.

In business Mike works with companies who derive enduring value from a better understanding of their core social purpose. A chartered accountant by profession, he is an adviser at SIFA Strategy, which helps organisations to embed sustainability as a driver of value, resilience and long-term performance. Previously he co-founded Corporate Citizenship, now part of SLR Consulting.

In public service he’s been elected as an inner city council leader and London Assembly member. Today he is a trustee of the Institute of Business Ethics and a director of the RADIX Centre for Business, Politics and Society in Amsterdam. Until recently he chaired the board of trustees at The Restart Project – a social enterprise empowering people to use their electronics longer in order to reduce waste. In 2025 he completed a four year appointment as the founding chair of the governance board at the London Film Academy. He was previously treasurer of the New Economics Foundation, and an adviser to Green Alliance.

After qualifying with KPMG, Mike began his business career as finance director of Action Resource Centre, going on to start his consultancy business in 1997.  Corporate Citizenship grew to comprise a talented team of more than 100 people in London, New York, San Francisco, Santiago, Singapore and Melbourne. Mike supported a diverse range of clients including Diageo, the European Investment Bank, Ford, HSBC, Mars, SABMiller and Unilever – where he played an important role in helping launch the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. Mike co-founded LBG, now B4SI, the international benchmarking group and community investment evaluation model, with some 200+ corporate members around the world.

Mike also created Corporate Citizenship Briefing, the leading journal for business managers on social responsibility and sustainability. This moved online to distribute news and analysis on sustainable and responsible business, with a subscriber list of over 6000. Now no longer maintained, it remains an invaluable resource for research into the history and development of corporate social responsibility.

In public life, Mike was elected as the then youngest member of the GLC/ILEA in 1985, going on to represent Prince’s Ward on Lambeth Council, where he was joint council leader for four years. He next served as an elected member of the London Assembly for a decade. He was appointed by Mayor Livingstone and reappointed by Mayor Johnson to the London Sustainable Development Commission and chaired the Assembly’s Economic and Social Development Committee among other roles.

Having previously undertaken various roles in the Liberal Democrats, including a period acting as unpaid special adviser to Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Mike has most recently collaborated to produce a series of podcasts under the Green Book banner, ten years on from publishing the Green Book.  All episodes and more about Green Book Pod are available here.

In demand as a speaker and sustainability specialist, Mike was a judge for the National Business Awards’ corporate citizenship award, for IR Magazine’s best annual report award, for the Charities Aid Foundation Company of the Year and on the IPPR public involvement awards panel.  He was named by the Evening Standard newspaper as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners for his work on the environment.