Jean-Francois Salzmann

Jean-François joined Mazars in 1992. He build up his professional experience in France and Germany, before taking the responsibility for Mazars office in Czech Republic in 1998. After having opened Mazars office in Slovakia in 2000, he became monitor for Mazars activities in Central Europe. In 2010, he became managing partner for Mainland China. Since 2022, he is in charge of Forvis Mazars activities in Northern Asia including operational management of Forvis Mazars in Japan. He is also a member of the Forvis Mazars Asian board with a focus on Financial advisory, development of SSC and roll out of international ERP.

Jean-François is a French CPA (Expert Comptable). With almost twenty years’ professional experience, he has deep knowledge in international accounting, tax and business regulations as well as the best practices of business operations. He has assisted a large number of companies to set up their businesses in emerging markets and provided ongoing advisory services to their business operations, including audit assurance service, corporate merger and acquisition advisory service, tax advisory service, internal control and corporate governance compliance advisory services. Jean-François has furthermore coordinated audit assignments for large groups and acquired awareness in service, industry; insurance and banking sectors.

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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.