Michael Raymond Mainelli MStJ (born 1958),

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Z/Yen Z/Yen is a commercial think-tank, consultancy and venture firm headquartered in the City of London. It works in the financial services, technology and voluntary sectors on research, performance review and strategic management. Founded in 1994, ...

, served as a

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for 2019–2021.

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, he is founder of the Long Finance initiative.

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for Broad Street

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in the

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since 2013, Mainelli was elected

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on 24 June 2019.

Education

Mainelli attended

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Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

and the

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. His early scientific research in aerospace and computer graphics led to him starting Swiss companies in seismology, cartography and energy information from 1979 to 1984. He conceived and produced the first complete digital map of the world in 1983, Mundocart, as well as the $20 million

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project from 1980 to 1984.

Career

After joining

Arthur Andersen Arthur Andersen was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporat ...

in 1985, Mainelli became a

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and board member of the accountancy firm BDO Binder Hamlyn from 1987 to 1994. Mainelli lectured on new concepts of money and the role of government, delivering and publishing a series of 28 free one-hour lectures on commerce at

in the

while serving as Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce from 2005 to 2009. The theme of his programme was "Society’s Commercial Choice – Risks and Rewards of Markets". In 2005 Mainelli, in conjunction with Gresham College, the City of London Corporation and forty financial institutions, launched Long Finance's London Accord, an agreement to share environmental, social and governance research with policy makers and the public. While co-founding Z/Yen in 1994, Mainelli had a spell in merchant banking with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and served as Corporate Development Director of Europe's largest R&D organisation (then the UK Ministry of Defence's

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, DERA, now largely QinetiQ and

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, the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory) leading to two privatisations. At Z/Yen, Mainelli established the

Global Financial Centres Index The Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) is a ranking of the competitiveness of financial centres based on over 29,000 financial centre assessments from an online questionnaire together with over 100 indices from organisations such as the World ...

, The London Accord, Long Finance, the Global Intellectual Property Index, the Global Green Finance Index, the Smart Centres Index, the Farsight Award, and other financial services initiatives. His area of current research encompasses the Distributed Futures research programme and he speaks quite frequently on his 25 years of research on 'smart ledgers' (''aka''

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) as well as other technologies. Mainelli is a

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(FCCA), computer specialist (FBCS, CITP), securities professional (FCSI(Hons)) and management consultant (FIMC, CMC). He is a non-executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (the UK's national body for standards and laboratories) where he is a proponent for competitive standards markets, and an AIM-listed company, Wishbone Gold plc. He is a

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and

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of Gresham College, Visiting Professor at UCL's Bartlett School, Honorary Fellow of King's College London, and a former

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of the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. In 2013,Mainelli was elected

of Broad Street ward for the

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. In 2015 he was awarded the title of . In 2020, having been a trustee from 2008, he was made an Honorary Life Fellow of Gresham College. He has held advisory posts at City University, Hitachi UK, and

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. Michael is Past Master of the

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for 2017–18, and an honorary liveryman of the Furniture Makers, Water Conservators, Marketors, Tax Advisers, and International Bankers, an honorary freeman of the Educators, as well as a Craft-Owning Freeman of the Watermen & Lightermen. Mainelli was elected

on 24 June 2019 and assumed office on 27 September 2019. Due to the

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, he was asked by the electorate, and accepted, to extend his term till September 2021.

Awards and honours

* 2003 UK Smart Award for prediction software, and was British Computer Society "Director of the Year" (2004–05). * Member of the Order of St John (2019)

Writing

Mainelli has published over 50 journal articles, 200 commercial articles and four books, including the novel, "Clean Business Cuisine: Now and Z/Yen", written with Ian Harris. Mainelli's economics book, "The Price of Fish", also written with Ian Harris, applied his Gresham lecture series ideas to '

wicked problems In planning and policy, a wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fi ...

'. "The Price of Fish" won the 2012 Independent Publishers Gold Award for Finance, Investment and Economics.

Publications

Novels

*Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris,
Clean Business Cuisine: Now and Z/Yen
', Milet Publishing (2000), , 160 pages.

Non-fiction

*Abdeldjellil Bouzidi and Michael Mainelli,
L’Innovation Financière Au Service Du Climat: Les Obligations À Impact Environnemental
', Revue Banque (2017), , 123 pages. *Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris,
The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions
', Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2011), , 328 pages inner of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Finance, Investment & Economics Gold Prize *Ian Harris and Michael Mainelli,
Information Technology for the Not-for-Profit Sector
', ICSA Publishing (2001), , 224 pages.

Personal life

Mainelli married in 1996 Elisabeth (''née'' Reuß, 1964) and together they undertook the restoration of the

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'' Lady Daphne'', while he still lectures on, and supports, sailing barges and their history. He has been an International Member, International Financial Services Industry Advisory Committee, Office of the Taoiseach –

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since 2015.

Arms

References

External links

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

www.world-traders.org
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mainelli, Michael 1958 births Living people English people of Italian descent Italian people of Irish descent American people of Irish descent Harvard College alumni Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of the London School of Economics British economists Professors of Gresham College 21st-century English male writers English male non-fiction writers American economists