About Mike Tuffrey

Mike was born and grew up in Bromley, moving to Lambeth on getting his first job. He has an economics degree from Durham University and qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in 1984.

He then worked in the House of Lords as a researcher for the Liberal and SDP Peers, at the height of the battles with the then Tory government over rate capping, GLC abolition and transport privatisation. After the 1987 general election, he moved to become a director of a national charity, placing staff from major companies on secondment to charities and community groups.

That lead him in 1990 to become a consultant working with companies on social and environmental responsibility. In 1997 he co-founded a successful consultancy firm where he retains a part-time directorship. Today concerns are widespread about the  behaviour of global corporations  on issues as diverse as environmental performance, responsible marketing and labour standards in the supply chain.

Aged 48, Mike is married with three young children and lives in Clapham, south London. His partner is a nurse specialist in palliative care, undertaking research at St George’s, University of London on the needs of people with a learning disability.

Mike has a long term voluntary involvement in several charities and pressure groups, including Friends of the Earth, WWF and Amnesty International. He was national treasurer of Gingerbread, the charity for lone parents, and chaired the management committee of a care-in-the-community charity for people with a learning disability. He also led the team of volunteers which saved a historic church in Vauxhall and converted it into a heritage and community centre. Mike is an active parish member of St Mary’s, Clapham.