Michael Mainelli

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About Michael Mainelli

Professor Michael Mainelli KStJ OMRI PhD MPhil BA FCCA FCSI(Hon) FBCS FRSA CITP FIC CMC MEI is a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin. He gained his PhD at the London School of Economics where he was also Visiting Professor of Innovation & IT. Originally a research scientist in aerospace (rocket science) and computing (architecture & cartography), after directing mapping projects in Switzerland he became a senior partner with accountants BDO Binder Hamlyn directing global consulting, and Corporate Development Director for Europe’s largest R&D firm, then the Ministry of Defence’s strong Defence Evaluation & Research Agency. During a mergers & acquisitions spell in merchant banking with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, he founded Z/Yen in 1994, the City of London’s leading think-tank, promoting societal advance through better finance and technology, renowned for its Global Financial, Green Finance, and Smart Centres indices.Michael is Chairman of Z/Yen Group; Emeritus Professor of Commerce & Life Fellow of Gresham College; Senior Independent Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service and AIM-listed Wishbone Gold plc; Visiting Professor at UCL’s Bartlett School and City St George’s University; Fellow of Goodenough, King’s, and Birkbeck Colleges; Trustee of Morden College. Awards include UK Foresight Challenge Award for the Financial Laboratory; UK Smart Award for AI prediction software; Technology Strategy Board Challenge Award for financial avatars; British Computer Society Director of the Year; Commendatore, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana; Consigliere del Senato Accademico of L’Accademia Tiberina; ‘Hons’ award from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment; Knight of the Order of St John; Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple. Michael is active in seventeen livery companies, past Master of the World Traders, an Alderman of the City of London for Broad Street, late Lord Mayor of London (2023-2024), and Sheriff (2019-2021), with charity interests in the environment, education, and care. Michael has published over 60 journal and 250 commercial articles. The Price Of Fish: A New Approach To Wicked Economics And Better Decisions, won the Independent Publisher Book Awards Finance, Investment & Economics Gold Prize.