Registered charity · York
The Society for the Promotion of Mechanism and Institution Design
- 5 trustees
- Income £9k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Austria, Canada and more
- Website
- www.mechanism-design.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£9k£2k
- 2024£272£1k
- 2023£9k£892
Earlier years
- 2022£0£1k
- 2021£60£755
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE SUBJECT OF MECHANISM AND INSTITUTION DESIGN BY:-A) MANAGING THE FLAGSHIP JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY: JOURNAL OF MECHANISM AND INSTITUTION DESIGN; B) PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON DESIGNING, IMPROVING, ANALYSING AND TESTING ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL, POLITICAL OR SOCIAL MECHANISMS AND INSTITUTIONS; C) ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF MECHANISMS AND INSTITUTIONS THAT IMPROVE EFFICIENCY, EQUALITY, PROSPERITY, STABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN SOCIETY; D) SUPPORTING AND ORGANISING LECTURES, WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ON MECHANISM AND INSTITUTION DESIGN; E) FOSTERING EXCHANGES AND DISCUSSIONS AMONG ACADEMICS, PRACTITIONERS AND POLICY MAKERS AND DISSEMINATE THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE FIELD.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
5 trustees on the board
- Prof. Zaifu Yang Chair since 2015
- Jacco Thijssen since 2017
- Prof. Paul Schweinzer since 2015
- Prof. Tommy Andersson since 2015
- Prof. Yuan JU since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Prof. Zaifu Yang Chair since 2015
- Jacco Thijssen since 2017
- Prof. Paul Schweinzer since 2015
- Prof. Tommy Andersson since 2015
- Prof. Yuan JU since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Jacco Thijssen since 2017
- Prof. Paul Schweinzer since 2015
- Prof. Tommy Andersson since 2015
- Prof. Yuan JU since 2015
Portfolio (1)
- Prof. Zaifu Yang Chair since 2015
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1174289
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 31 MAY 2015AS AMENDED ON 10 AUG 2017
- Contact on the register
- 07835433003 · cmid@york.ac.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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