Hyunyoung Hwang

Dr. Hyunyoung Hwang is a Research Fellow at the Korea Capital Market Institute, specializing in policy research on corporate governance and capital markets. She has over a decade of experience across Korea’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches. From 2012 to 2014, Dr. Hwang conducted research at the Ministry of Justice, followed by six years as a Legislative Researcher at the National Assembly. Between 2020 and 2022, she served as a Judicial Researcher at the Supreme Court, engaging in policy and judicial research in the fields of commercial and capital markets law. She has authored numerous papers and policy reports on corporate governance and has been invited as a guest lecturer at various academic and professional institutions. Dr. Hwang is a member of the Financial Development Review Committee and the Capital Market Investigation Deliberation Committee of the Financial Services Commission and serves on the Legislative Support Committee of the National Assembly. She also holds executive board positions in several academic associations related to commercial law in Korea.

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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.