Location: City Marketing Suite, The Guildhall.

Time: 5:00pm

Michael co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading think tank, in 01994 in order to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Educated at Harvard, Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics & Political Science, as a scientist in the 01970’s Michael conceived and delivered the first global cartography and environmental mapping project, Geodat, in 01984. Michael became a leading accountancy firm partner in the 01980’s and served on the board of Europe’s largest R&D organisation in the 01990’s. Michael’s financial markets experiences include having had all major wholesale banks as clients of his firm, as well as insurers, exchanges, information and software financial firms; creating the Global Financial Centres Index and the Farsight Award with Universities Superannuation Scheme; serving on the ACCA’s Corporate Governance & Risk Management Committee; winning a Foresight challenge award for the Financial Laboratory; being British Computer Society’s Director of the Year; and hosting a regular column in Journal of Risk Finance. Michael is Emeritus Professor and Fellow at Gresham College, Visiting Professor at LSE, non-executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, Trustee of the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Ocean Alliance and a London Waterways Commissioner. Michael leads the Long Finance initiative and his book, The Road To Long Finance: A Systems View Of The Credit Scrunch, written with Bob Gifford, was the subject of the first Long Finance event. Michael is the co-founder and Principal Advisor to the London Accord, the largest cooperative investment research group on environmental, social and governance issues.