Julia Tay

Julia is the EY Asia-Pacific Public Policy Leader, with more than 20 years of experience in audit, commerce and government.

She supports EY member firms in over 20 countries with respect to public policy. This includes continuous engagement with regulators and key stakeholders with the aim of shaping public policies that enhances corporate governance for the public interest.

Julia is also a EY representative on the Global Public Policy Committee comprising the six largest networks of accounting firms. In this role, she works with regulatory groups to improve audit quality globally.

Prior to joining EY, Julia spent more than seven years with Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), the national regulator of companies and public accountants, where she last served as Deputy Chief Executive.

Julia earned a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University

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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.