Fabrice Houdart

Fabrice Houdart is a human rights and corporate social responsibility specialist with 20 years of experience at the World Bank and the United Nations. He is the founder of the Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors and cofounded Koppa, a 501(c)3 working on LGBTQ+ economic empowerment in the global south. Through his consulting firm, he advises Fortune 500 companies, including L’Oréal. 

At the UN, in the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, he co-authored the UN Corporate Standards of Conduct for Business, the largest LGBTQ+ corporate social responsibility initiative supported by more than 500 companies.  He volunteers on the Boards of several non-profit organizations (Housing Works, the Institute of Current World Affairs, the IDAHOBIT Committee, and the CUNY TV Foundation). He is an Advisor to the Board of Open for Business, a UK nonprofit focused on making the business and economic case for LGBTQ+ inclusion. He lives in NYC with his twelve-year-old children, Eitan and Maxime.

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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.