David Trenchard

David is a consultant on corporate governance, shareholder engagement, activist investment and capital markets – with a variety of advisory and non-executive roles.

He is also a Non-Executive Director at Integrum ESG, as well as a number of other private companies. Until 2025, David worked at Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd where worked with the Engagement Team in Europe on all aspects of stakeholder engagement.

He was also formerly Vice Chairman of Knight Vinke, at the time one of Europe’s best known activist investment firms. In this position, he was actively involved in the engagement with some of Europe’s largest companies. Prior to his career in asset management, Mr. Trenchard was a Senior Consultant at Tulchan Communications (one of London’s leading capital markets communications advisory firms).

He had previously spent 25 years in investment banking – mostly at Morgan Stanley – where he held various senior posts in equity sales and investment banking in Europe, North America and Asia. Latterly at Morgan Stanley he was a London-based Managing Director in Equity Capital Markets and Head of Corporate Broking.

David was formerly a Member of Council at the Institute of Directors and sat on its Audit and Risk Committee. On stepping down from that role, David was invited to join the Advisory Board of the IoD’s Centre for Corporate Governance. Mr. Trenchard graduated from Cambridge University, with a degree in Economics.

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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.