Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli

Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli is a member of the Advisory Committee. He was the 695th Lord Mayor of the City of London, from November 2023 to November 2024, and Sheriff of the City of London from 2019 to 2021, and he has been Alderman for the Ward of Broad Street since 2013. A scientist, economist, and chartered certified accountant, he co-founded Z/Yen Group, the City of London think-tank, in 1994 and is its Chairman; its work includes the Global Financial Centres Index, Long Finance, and the London Accord.

Earlier he was a senior partner and board member of BDO Binder Hamlyn, Corporate Development Director of the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, and a merchant banker with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. He was Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College from 2005 to 2009 and is its Emeritus Professor and an Honorary Life Fellow. He is President of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a non-executive director and presently acting Chairman of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, a Knight of the Order of St John, and a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He read Government at Harvard and holds a doctorate from the London School of Economics; with Ian Harris he wrote The Price of Fish, which won the Independent Publisher Book Awards gold award for finance, investment, and economics in 2012.