[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-michael-mainelli":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Michael Mainelli is executive chairman and co-founder of Z\u002FYen, the City of London commercial think tank behind indices such as the Global Financial Centres Index. A scientist and accountant by background, he served as the 695th Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2023–24 and is Emeritus Professor of Commerce at Gresham College.","He founded Z\u002FYen in 1994 and built it into a commercial think tank whose indices are its most visible output. The Global Financial Centres Index has ranked the world’s financial centres twice a year since 2007, and the same method has since been applied to green finance and to smart centres. The ranking works by asking practitioners where they would locate and why, which turns competition between jurisdictions into something published and comparable.","That is why the work is relevant here. His indices measure, in public and twice a year, the thing the Free Cities movement argues for: that places compete for capital and talent on the quality of their institutions, and that the results move.","A research scientist and accountant by training, he was Sheriff of the City of London before serving as Lord Mayor, and took his mayoral theme, Connect to Prosper, from the same view of the City as a place that trades knowledge as much as money.",1788062489823]