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Mike Power is a Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has been educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and Girton College, Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management. Mike has served on independent director boards in the financial services industry and has chaired risk, audit, and valuation committees. He has been a member of the advisory board for the Financial Reporting Council’s Financial Reporting Lab and has been the Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at LSE since April 2014. His research and teaching focus on regulation, accounting, auditing, internal control, risk management, and organizational theory. Major works include 'Audit Society: Rituals of Verification' (Oxford, 1997), 'Organized Uncertainty: Designing World Risk Management' (Oxford, 2007), and 'Economy Traces: Traceability, Tracking Accounts Live' (OUP, 2026). For his significant contributions to research, he has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, Uppsala University, Sweden, and the University of Turku, Finland.
Department of Economics