MrMichael Wells

Michael Wells CA(SA) is Professor of Practice at Imperial College Business School and a World Bank Group consultant, working to deepen understanding of international corporate reporting (financial and sustainability) requirements and fostering capacity to make/audit/regulate the judgments necessary to apply them. He also perform compliance reviews of corporate financial statements for World Bank Group assessments of country compliance with financial reporting standards. 

He was an inagural Board Member at UK Endorsement Board (UKEB) and Chair of the UKEB Academic Advisory Group. His second term ended in March 2026. The UKEB influences, endorses and adopts new or amended international accounting standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for use by UK companies. 

For over a decade he led the IASB's International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Education Initiative. While leading the IFRS Education Initiative he also served as a member of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) and the International Association for Accounting Education & Research (IAAER) Board of Advisors. He subsequently served on the American Accounting Association (AAA) Membership Advisory Committee. Before that he served as a member of the AAA Education Committee.