Anna McDonald

Anna McDonald is VP of Global ESG Strategy at PGIM, the investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc.

Anna shapes and co-ordinates ESG strategy and execution across PGIM’s public and private asset classes and engages with key stakeholders, including clients, regulators and industry bodies. Anna has a breadth of investment experience, having begun her career in debt capital market origination with Barclays Capital, Société Générale and BNP Paribas, before moving into asset ownership with the Church of England, where she ran the Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG). In 2022, she moved into asset management with PGIM. She is based in London and travels frequently to engage with PGIM’s clients around the world.  

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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.