Linda-Eling Lee

Linda-Eling Lee is the Institute’s founding director and a leader in the field of sustainable finance. Linda currently serves on the Advisory Council of the IFRS Foundation, is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 7th Assessment Report (IPCC AR7) and is a fellow of the Finance Leaders Fellowship of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She was named one of the Top 100 Women in Finance by Barron’s in 2019 and 2021, and was voted No. 1 for an Individual Making the Most Positive Overall Contribution to Sustainable Investment / Corporate Governance in 2018 and 2019 by Extel/IRRI.

Linda has published research in both management and investment practitioner journals, as well as in top academic peer-reviewed journals. She is a frequent media commentator on climate and sustainability investing in outlets including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNBC.
 

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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.