Junichiro Sano

Chief Liaison Officer, International Relation Division of JACD (Japan Association of Corporate Directors), and Senior advisor for Dalton Investments Inc.

Junichiro Sano is a steering committee member of the Japan Association of Corporate Directors(JACD)　and mainly acts as the Chief Liaison Officer of the International Relation Division . He has been studying and promoting the Japanese corporate governance reform on site.

Mr. Sano started his career at Nikko Securities in 1978. After 7-year service as the institutional sales manager for the US major institutional investors in NY, he returned to Tokyo HQ in 1989 as the manager of the CEO office.

He was assigned to promote “the Modern Portfolio Theory” to the Japanese investment community. He firstly introduced the passive products such as the index fund and the hedge fund strategy to the Japanese investment community. He also helped creating several joint ventures of “the Quant’s investment group” with Wells Fargo, Barra and Dr. W. Sharpe of Stanford University.

In 1999, he joined Nikko Citigroup Securities, born in the huge merger among with Nikko, Salomon Smith Berney, Travelers group and Citi group.

He served as the managing director of the equity division. He was a regional head of the Global Sales Committee of the Citigroup and also a representing member of the diversity committee of Citigroup.

He joined Dalton Investment LLC in 2006, the value investment firm based in Los Angeles USA, and he served as the president of the Dalton Investment KK, Japan. He serves currently as senior advisor for the Dalton investments group.

Besides above activities, he was appointed the board member of the Nippon Koa Insurance Company（Sompo Holding at present）2008-2012, one of the major non-life insurance companies listed TSE in Japan. He helped to raise company’s corporate value and assisted the merge with the Sompo Japan insurance company on behalf of the shareholders anticipation.

He is the managing partner of the Carpe Vinum Japan Fund since 2015 and he travels often to Bordeaux and Bourgogne for the wine fund DDQ with his local partners and recently Mr. Sano is called as “Wine Samurai” by his local chateaux friends.

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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.