Matthew Kilgarriff

Matthew Kilgarriff serves as an Independent Director to international companies, academic institutions and think tanks, including the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) the Swiss Institute of Directors (SIoD) and The Conference Board.

He was an executive at Richemont, the Swiss luxury goods group, serving as Group Company Secretary and Director of Corporate Responsibility. Leading in finance, governance and sustainability roles over 25 years, he helped to shape a blue chip with a green blush.

He holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge, Reading and the City of London. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), the Chartered Governance Institute (CGI) and the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS).

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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.