Maria Larsson Ortino

Maria has almost 20 years of Responsible Investment experience. She joined Legal & General in January 2019 where she is the Co-Lead, Global Investment Stewardship. She previously led the team’s efforts on health. Maria is a member of WEF’s Global Future Council on AMR. She is one of four Co-chairs of Access To Nutrition initiative’s (ATNi) Investors in Nutrition and Health, and she sits on the advisory group of the Investor Coalition on Food Policy.

Prior to joining LGIM, Maria was a member of the ESG teams at Newton Investment Management and State Street Global Advisors. She has also headed up the research team at a start-up corporate governance data company and served as an analyst within the IVIS team, part of the Investment Association, UK. She started her corporate governance career at PIRC, a proxy advisor. Maria has an LLB from Queen Mary College, University of London and a Master’s Degree from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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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.