Robert McCormick

Bob was appointed Executive Director of the Council of Institutional Investors in July 2024. Prior to joining the CII, he was Managing Director at PJT Camberview advising public company boards and executives on a range of corporate governance matters. Prior to that, Bob was Chief Policy Officer at Glass Lewis where he was responsible for managing the research and proxy voting recommendations of over 20,000 research reports annually covering public companies in over 100 countries. Before joining Glass Lewis, he was Director of Investment Proxy Research at Fidelity Investments where he managed the annual voting of over 5,000 securities worth $1 trillion held in Fidelity mutual funds and client pension accounts.

Bob serves on the advisory boards of Columbia Law School’s Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership and the University of Delaware’s Weinberg Center on Corporate Governance.

Bob holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Providence College, a Juris Doctor from Quinnipiac University and a Graduate Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management from Harvard University Extension School

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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.