Chris Osborne

Chris Osborne leads ISS’ U.K. research team, which produces market-leading, high-quality research and voting recommendations on U.K. companies for ISS clients. Based in London, Chris manages the team’s dialogue with U.K. companies in accordance with the ISS Compliance Statement for the U.K. Stewardship Code, monitoring U.K. and global corporate governance developments, and ensuring ISS’ benchmark U.K. voting policy and guidelines reflect widely accepted market standards, investor needs, and best practice. He also serves as Head of South African Research.

Chris joined ISS in 2019, previously serving as Vice-President and manager in the U.K. Research team, before being appointed head in 2021.

Chris has over ten years of U.K. governance experience, including analyst and research roles in the IVIS team at the U.K. Investment Association and at executive remuneration consultant, New Bridge Street (now Aon). Chris holds an LLB Law degree from University College London (UCL).

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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.