Michael Mainelli
Emeritus Professor of Commerce & Life Fellow at Gresham College at The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management
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The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management
Alderman & Sheriff Professor Michael Mainelli is Emeritus Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, having held the chair from 2005 to 2009. His first degree was in Government from Harvard, followed by mathematics and engineering studies at Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the London School of Economics in chaotic systems, where he was also a Visiting Professor.
Professor Mainelli is Executive Chairman of Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, which he co-founded in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. A qualified accountant (FCCA), securities professional (FCSI), computer specialist (FBCS) and management consultant (FIC), Michael began his career as a research scientist in aerospace (rockets) and computing (architecture & mapping). He later became a senior partner with accountants BDO Binder Hamlyn directing global consulting projects. During the 1990s he worked for the UK Ministry of Defence as Corporate Development Director for Europe’s then largest R&D firm, the Defence Evaluation & Research Agency leading to two privatisations. Career highlights include directing Z/Yen’s Long Finance initiative with Gresham College and the City of London Corporation asking “when would we know our financial system is working?” as well as creating the Global Financial Centres Index, Global Intellectual Property Index, London Accord and Farsight Award. Michael also conceived and produced the first complete digital map of the world in 1983, Mundocart (a 1980’s Google Earth), and the $20 million Geodat consortium cartography project.
Michael is non-executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UK’s national body for standards and laboratories), AIM-listed Sirius Minerals plc (potash mining), AIM-listed Wishbone Gold Plc; Alderman for Broad Street Ward (elected) at the City of London Corporation; Almoner for Christ’s Hospital School; Trustee of International Fund for Animal Welfare. Michael has held numerous advisory posts, for example with Hitachi UK, City University and HM Treasury. Michael won a 1996 UK Foresight Challenge award for the Financial Laboratory, 2003 UK Smart Award for prediction software, 2005 British Computer Society Director of the Year, 2011 Technology Strategy Board Challenge Award for financial avatars, and was awarded Gentiluomo of the Associazione Cavalieri di San Silvestro in 2011. Michael is a Liveryman, Worshipful Company of World Traders, Freeman, Watermen & Lightermen, and represents the Financial Services Group of Livery Companies.
Michael has published over 40 journal articles, 150 commercial articles and four books. Michael’s humorous risk/reward management novel, Clean Business Cuisine: Now and Z/Yen, written with Ian Harris, was a Sunday Times Book of the Week in 2000; Accountancy Age described it as “surprisingly funny considering it is written by a couple of accountants”. Their third co-authored book, The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions, based on his Gresham lectures, won the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Finance, Investment & Economics Gold Prize. Michael plays bagpipes, loves skiing and sailing and, with his wife, Elisabeth, he races and restores the 1923 Thames Sailing Barge Lady Daphne and sits on the world’s oldest sailing racing body, the Thames Match Committee. With an international family, Michael speaks English, German, French and Italian poorly, but even worse Spanish and Chinese.
Videos
Michael Mainelli Explains Smart Ledgers
Talk with Michael Mainelli by Paul Tanasyuk | Distributed Ledger and Identity
Michael Mainelli - "The economic impact on world trade of smart ledgers"
London after Covid-19 - a discussion with Michael Mainelli, Aldermanic Sheriff of London
Tony@12 with Professor Michael Mainelli
Michael Mainelli, on how the insurance industry has led the way in blockchain technology
Mondo Visione Exchange Forum 2016 - Opening Remarks by Professor Michael Mainelli
Michael Mainelli - Identity - Internet of Agreements conference
Humaniq Faces - Michael Mainelli (Professor at Gresham College & Executive Chairman of Z/Yen Group)
Michael Mainelli - What does sustainability mean in the 21st century?
Mondo Visione Exchange Forum: Chairman’s Closing Remarks, Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli
2018 Graduation Keynote Speech - Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli
EF19 Michael Mainelli Closing
Re-tuning your Firm - Michael Mainelli on the future of work and professional services
City life in 2021: Going back to the office or WFH? Michael Mainelli, Pilita Clark & Alexandra Carn
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