Michael Mainelli, Chartered FCSI (Hon)
Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group
Michael is the 695th Lord Mayor of London, elected by the City
of London Corporation in November 2023 for a term concluding
in November 2024. He is a scientist financier trying to promote
societal advance through better finance and technology. He
founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading think-tank
and venture firm, in 1994. Z/Yen is renowned for its Global
Financial, Green Finance, and Smart Centres indices, as well
as notable ‘firsts’ in research. Educated at
Harvard, Trinity College Dublin, and LSE, where he was also
Visiting Professor in innovation and IT, he became a senior
partner with BDO Binder Hamlyn, and Corporate Development
Director for the Ministry of Defence’s Defence
Evaluation & Research Agency. Michael is a fellow of Kings
College London, Goodenough College, and Gresham College,
visiting professor at UCL’s Bartlett School of
Sustainable Construction, non-executive director of the United
Kingdom Accreditation Service and a listed mining company. He
is active in 11 livery companies, an Alderman of the City of
London and late Sheriff of the City of London 2019-2021, with
charity interests in the environment, education, and care.