Claudia Kruse is part of the global management team of the investment function reporting into the Chief Executive Officer of APG Asset Management. Before joining APG in 2009, she worked on the buy and sell-side in London for almost a decade.

She currently serves on the Board of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and co-chairs the Paris Aligned Investing Initiative (PAII). In 2016 she was appointed to the German Corporate Governance Code Commission, and she was a member of the EU Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2017). In July 2020, APG together with PGGM, AustralianSuper and British Columbia Investment Management launched the SDI Asset Owner Platform, setting a global standard for investing into the Sustainable Development Goals, which Claudia chairs.

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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.