Richard leads on Stewardship within the Public Markets ESG team, including proxy voting and engagement activities. 

Richard joined Aviva Investors as part of a graduate scheme and previously worked in the Finance Team before joining the Sustainable Investing Team. Since then, Richard has worked in a variety of ESG roles covering research, product, and integration responsibilities. This includes being an ESG fund analyst for the Aviva Investors Stewardship Funds (an ethical fund range), a Senior ESG Analyst responsible for covering the financial sector, and then leading the ESG Credit Team. Before Aviva Investors, Richard worked for a renewable energy provider and volunteered in a government funded international development programme.

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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.