Luz Rodriguez

Luz Rodriguez has over twelve years of experience in corporate governance and investment stewardship, where she has been a strong advocate for shareholder rights and regulatory reforms that foster trust in global capital markets.

At Colorado PERA, Luz Rodriguez leads the corporate governance and proxy voting activities. She also contributes to the development and implementation of the investment stewardship program for the $61 billion Association. The Investment Stewardship Division ensures compliance with PERA’s proxy voting guidelines; monitors company engagement activity; and provides reports to the Investment Committee of the PERA Board of Trustees.

Luz also serves as a member of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) Board, where her responsibilities include oversight and strategic planning for the organization. In addition, she serves on the ICGN Audit and Risk Committee, Financial Capital Committee, and Policy Oversight Committee.

Prior to joining the Investment Stewardship Division, Luz was the Director of the Legal Services and Corporate Governance Division at PERA. She was responsible for overseeing PERA’s administrative review process, implementing securities litigation policy, coordinating internal and external counsel, managing proxy voting, engaging with companies and partnerships in which Colorado PERA invests, and reporting to the Shareholder Responsibility Committee of the PERA Board of Trustees.

After graduating with a degree in accounting from the University of Colorado in 2003, Luz worked in investment accounting and was responsible for the pension payroll for Colorado PERA, which is the 23rd largest pension plan in the United States, serving nearly 700,000 current and retired Colorado public servants.

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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.