Biography
Michael Tuffrey was born in Orpington and grew up in Bromley. He was educated at Douai School, an independent Catholic school in Woolhampton. He then studied Economics at Durham University. He moved to Brixton where he got his first job as an accountant and started his political life as a member of the Greater London Council (1985-6) and was a councillor of the London Borough of Lambeth from 1990 to 2002. He led Lambeth Council between 1994 and 1998.
Tuffrey was Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly group from May 2006 until May 2010. He is a member of the Assembly's Environment, Planning and Housing, and Audit Committees and is Deputy Chair of the Budget and Performance Management Committee. The Evening Standard named Tuffrey as one of the thousand most influential Londoners for his work on the environment.
Tuffrey is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and has worked as a finance director for a national charity before starting up a consultancy business, Corporate Citizenship.
Tuffrey is married and has three children. He lives with his family in Clapham, London. He is a parishioner of St Mary's Catholic Church, Clapham.
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