Richard Hardyment

Richard Hardyment has spent nearly two decades advising and assessing companies on responsible and sustainable business. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership and was the founding Research Director at the World Benchmarking Alliance, an Associate Director at the Institute of Business Ethics and a Director at Corporate Citizenship consultancy. He is an independent member of B Lab’s Multinational Standards Advisory Council and guest lectures on materiality and metrics at Cambridge and Imperial College. His first book, The Wellbeing Purpose, examines the role of business in advancing life satisfaction and his new book - Measuring Good Business (2024) - looks at the rise and fall of ‘ESG’.