Dr. Christoph Wenk Bernasconi is a founding partner at SWIPRA Services AG, a think tank for corporate governance and stewardship in Switzerland, founding partner of Trusted Board Advisors, a Swiss strategic reputation consultant and program manager at the Executive Education Program on Stakeholder Management at the University of Zurich.

He earned his Ph.D. in 2013 with a focus on Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance, has co-authored various studies on Corporate Governance and is leading annual SWIPRA research projects on governance and general meetings in Switzerland. He is also a co-author of the SFI Whitepaper “Corporate Governance: Beyond Best Practice” and a co-initiator of the first Swiss Stewardship Code. 

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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.