Valerio Novembre

Valerio Novembre is Scientific Coordinator and Research Fellow at the Florence School of Banking and Finance. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Corporate Finance at Sorbonne University and he is a Senior Policy Officer (on leave) at the ESMA Investors Protection and Sustainable Finance Department. Prior to these assignments, he was an Economist in the Research and Policy Department of CONSOB and an Adjunct Lecturer at the European University in Rome and at the University of Florence. Valerio graduated summa cum laude at the University of Florence and subsequently gained an MSc from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the Institutions Markets Technology Institute in Lucca. He has drafted papers on finance and regulation for Italian and international journals.

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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.