Richard Hardyment has spent over 15 years advising and assessing companies on corporate sustainability. Before joining the Institute of Business Ethics, he was Research Director at the World Benchmarking Alliance, a Director at Corporate Citizenship and an advisor to Forum for the Future. He is an independent member of B Lab’s Multinational Company Standards Advisory Council. He studied at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College, London, and continues to lecture at both on sustainability measurement. He is the author of MEASURING GOOD BUSINESS: Making Sense of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Data (Routledge, April 2024).