Jon Lukomnik

Forbes calls long-time institutional investor Jon Lukomnik one of the pioneers of modern corporate governance.  Jon is the managing partner of Sinclair Capital LLC, a strategic consultancy to institutional investors, adjunct Professor and Brandmeyer Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he teaches sustainable investments to graduate students. He is also  a Senior Fellow at the High Meadows Institute and was the Pembroke Visiting Professor at the Judge Business School at Cambridge for the winter 2020 semester.

Jon is the co-author with Dr. James Hawley of “Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters” (Routledge 2021).  It has received widespread praise as the first unified theory of investing that examines why investors should care about — and try to influence — systemic risks that cause non-diversifiable risk in the capital markets. His most recent book, “Adapt or Fail: A 5×5 Governance Framework for Boards of Directors” (DeGruyter, 2025) was co-written with Rick Funston.

Jon has been the investment advisor or a trustee for more than $100 billion (including New York City’s pension funds) and has consulted to institutional investors with aggregate assets of more than $2 trillion dollars. He served for more than a decade as the executive director of the IRRC Institute. He  currently serves asa trustee on the Van Eck mutual funds, insurance trusts and European UCITs. He was previously a member of the Deloitte Audit Quality Advisory Committee, and the Standards and Emerging Issues  Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.   Jon co-founded the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and GovernanceMetrics International (now part of MSCI)

His previous books include  What They Do With Your Money, and  “The New Capitalists”, which was a Financial Times pick of the year. Both were co-written with Stephen Davis and David Pitt-Watson. In total, Jon has written more than 200 academic and practitioner articles. He has been honored by Council of Institutional Investors, Ethisphere, the National Association of Corporate Directors (US), Transparency Task Force, and Global Proxy Watch, among others. He most proud of being awarded the ICGN’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

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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.