Juan is Executive Board Director and cofounder of the Spanish Institute of Board Directors, IC-A, (Instituto de Consejeros-Administradores) since 2003, as well as Board Director, Nomination and Evaluation Committee member and Honorary Chairman of ecoDa (European Confederation of Board Directors’ Associations).

He has more than 32 years’ experience in Boardrooms, as Non-Executive Chairman, Non-Executive Board Director (as Independent Director and as Lead Independent Director, among others), as Executive Director, Advisory Board member, as well as Senior Advisor to Boards on good corporate governance practices. Juan has boardroom experience in listed companies (IBEX-35), non-listed and large family firms. He maintains fluent relations with global institutional investors and proxies advisors/solicitors.

During his term in office as Chairman of ecoDa, he submitted to the European Parliament the first “Corporate Governance Guidance and Principles for Unlisted Companies in Europe” (2010) and participated in its drafting. ecoDa’s 2021 new edition of the “Corporate Governance Guidance and Principles for Unlisted Companies in Europe” was elaborated by a European working group lead by Juan Álvarez-Vijande (Spain/IC-A) and Roger Baker (UK/IoD). This Guide has been supported by the European Commission, the OECD, the European Association of Family Businesses, and the International Finance Corporation, IFC, (World Bank / OECD). He has also contributed to the elaboration of national and international corporate governance codes, in addition to corporate governance practical guides for Board Directors. He is Chairman/Board Directors Training Tutor.

As Senior Executive he served successfully as CEO/Managing Director/Corporate Development Director in multinational companies and affiliates. Juan holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Polytechnic University of Madrid, a Master in Business Administration (MBA) and other professional degrees in Europe and USA.
 

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Juan Alvarez-Vijande Garcia

Will Farrell

Federated Hermes
Assistant Manager, EOS
London

Will co-leads the climate change theme at EOS, the stewardship arm of Federated Hermes Limited, where his coverage includes companies in Europe and Australia, primarily financial services, energy, chemicals, and materials. Prior to joining EOS, Will worked in the energy and infrastructure investment banking team at Macquarie Capital, where he specialised in renewable energy. Before that, Will held a number of roles across the UK climate policy space, including as a parliamentary researcher for Rt. Hon. Chris Skidmore MP on climate and energy issues, and as a climate and economic policy analyst at a diplomatic institute. He was appointed as a voluntary adviser to Rt. Hon. Alok Sharma MP, President of COP26, on preparations for COP26 after co-founding a Westminster climate policy group in 2019, which engaged MPs and Members of the House of Lords to advocate for more ambition on climate action in public policy. Will has a Bachelor’s degree (1st Class Honours) in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.