Michael Herodotou Zampelas (19 March 1937 – 15 May 2019)[1] was a Cypriot businessman, politician and philanthropist.
Michael Zampelas, a Cypriot by birth, was educated in the United Kingdom and became a Chartered Accountant in 1965.
He served as an elected member of the board of the European Organisation of Coopers & Lybrand Europe (1991-1999).
As an independent candidate, Zampelas won the municipal elections and took office as the Mayor of Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, on 1 January 2002.
Zampelas was actively promoting Cyprus through the extensive network of PricewaterhouseCoopers worldwide and through his connections with large banking and financial organisations, law firms and other offices abroad by delivering presentations at seminars and meetings in various countries and by giving interviews in the international media.
The company has created the Loukia and Michael Zampelas Art Museum, a non-profit private organisation, which houses the permanent collection of the Zampelas family and also organises temporary exhibitions of artists from Cyprus and abroad.