John Stuttard

Early life

Career

• Voluntary Service Overseas, Teacher with at SOAS College, Brunei ;
• New Horizon Youth Centre in London’s West End, Honorary Treasurer ;
• Cambridge University Appointments Board, Board Member, advising the Cambridge University Careers Service ;
• Totteridge Manor Association, an environmental charity, Director, Treasurer and Chairman ;
• China-Britain Business Council Director, ;
• VSO Member, Fund Raising Advisory Board, Council Member, Honorary Vice-President ;
• Advisory Committee of the East Asia Institute of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge University Member, ;
• Finnish-British Chamber of Commerce, Director, Chairman, and Life President, ;
• Justice of the Peace ;
• City of London: Alderman for Lime Street, Sheriff, Lord Mayor ;
• Bridewell Royal Hospital Court Member and Fellow, ;
• King Edward's School, Witley Governor, ;
• Guild of Educators, "Sponsoring Alderman", ;
• The Mayor of London’s Disaster Relief Appeal, Trustee, ;
• Charities Aid Foundation, Trustee, and Chairman, Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee ;
• City of London Archaeological Trust, Trustee, ;
• St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation - Advisor, Trustee and Chairman ;
• Morden College, Greenwich, an old-people’s home, Trustee, ;
• Totteridge Residents Association, Vice-President, ;
• The Lord Mayor’s 800th Anniversary Appeal "to help young people travel", Trustee, ;
• Admiral of the Port of London ;
• City University Chancellor, ;
• HM Lieutenancy of London ;
• London and Greater London Merchant Navy Association, President
• He is an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, New York, Honorary Doctor of Letters, City University, an Honorary Fellow, Securities & Investment Institute, and an Honorary Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ;
• Livery companies: Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass - Master ; the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales - Master ; the Worshipful Company of Educators - Master, and the Worshipful Company of Plumbers.
• Kazakh-British Trade & Industry Council, Co-Chair
• Churchill College, Cambridge - By-Fellow of the Moller Centre, Patron of the Churchill Archives Centre
• Shaftesbury Civic Society, Hon President
• Shaftesbury & District Historical Society, Hon President
• Author of six books The New Silk Road – Secrets of Business Success in China Today published by John Wiley and Whittington to World Financial Centre - The City of London and its Lord Mayor by Phillimore & Co, Travels in a Lifetime by John Stuttard, A History of British McCalls by John Stuttard, editor of The Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: The First Forty Years by WCCAEW and 'The Turbulent Quaker of Shaftesbury' by Hobnob Press

  Honours and awards

• He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2008 New Year Honours;
• He was appointed a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John and a Companion of the League of Mercy ;
• He was awarded Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland by the Government of Finland, and is a recipient of the Silver Medal of Helsinki;
• He received the Coronation Medal from the Sultan of Selangor ;
• He received the 20th Anniversary Jubilee Medal from the President of Kazakhstan.