Francesco Billari

Prof. Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography and Rector of Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He has been a professor at Oxford University and Nuffield College and research director at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and an Affiliate of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

His main research interests are population change and its implications, fertility and family, transition to adulthood, life cycle analysis, population forecasting, digitalization and demography, and comparative surveys.

His work has been published in leading scientific journals on demography, economics, epidemiology and public health, geography, sociology and statistics.

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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.