Angeles Garcia-Poveda

Angeles Garcia-Poveda has been the Chair of the Board of Directors of Legrand since July 2020. Prior to this appointment, she was Lead Director from 2013 to 2020 after being elected to Legrand’s Board in 2012. Angeles Garcia-Poveda began her career at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where she worked for 14 years as a strategy consultant and then as head of local, international and global recruitment. In 2008, she joined Spencer Stuart, an executive search consulting firm, becoming Managing Director for France in 2011 before being appointed Managing Director EMEA and member of the Global Executive Committee, then a member of the Supervisory Board from 2018 to 2021. She remained a Senior Advisor within the governance practice at Spencer Stuart until March 2023. Angeles Garcia-Poveda is also a Director of Bridgepoint and Puig. She sits on the Board of Directors of the IFD (Institut de la Finance Durable), on the Executive Council of the MEDEF and on the advisory board of the Climate Governance Initiative. She is also a member of the Haut Comité de Gouvernement d’Entreprise (“HCGE”).

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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.