About Me

Richard Hardyment is Associate Director at the Institute of Business Ethics and a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

He has spent nearly 20 years advising and assessing companies on responsible, sustainable and ethical business practices. He was the founding Director of Research at the World Benchmarking Alliance where he established and led a global team to publicly measure thousands of multinational companies on behalf of investors and civil society.

He has worked extensively with large companies, such as Unilever, on how to measure and disclose their sustainability impacts, as a Director at Corporate Citizenship consultancy and an advisor to Forum for the Future.

He serves as an independent member of B Lab’s Multinational Company Standards Advisory Council. He guest lectures on materiality and measurement at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Imperial College in London.

His first book, The Wellbeing Purpose (Routledge, 2019), set out how businesses can make life better for everyone through their supply chains, products and marketing. His second book Measuring Good Business (Routledge, 2024) charts the challenges and potential futures for the sustainable business movement amid the rise and fall of ESG. He has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Imperial College, London.