Akira Nozaki

Akira has been the Director of the Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) since July 2023. He joined the FSA in 2000.

From 2011, he served as Senior Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). As the Secretariat of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, he prepared the Corporate Governance Factbook and contributed to the 2015 revision of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.

From 2015, he served as the Directors in the FSA, responsible for the organizational strategy and human resources policies, capital market regulations, disclosure enforcement, and promoting innovative initiatives in the financial services by adopting information technology.

From 2021, he worked as the Counselor in the Cabinet Secretariat and the Counselor in the Digital Agency, serving as the Secretariat of the Web3.0 Study Group.

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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.