Catherine Salmon is Regional Head of Research for France, U.K., Middle East and Africa at ISS STOXX. She also leads a team monitoring and analyzing resolutions covering E&S Governance issues and is deputy chair of the ISS Global Policy Board, which oversees the ISS proprietary voting policies. She is based in Paris and has been with ISS since 2006 initially heading ISS’ French research team while working closely with internal and external stakeholders to refine and improve the market’s research offerings service.

Catherine is a frequent speaker covering corporate governance topics and regularly engages with key market players. She collaborates with the ISS STOXX Public and Regulatory Affairs team which monitors and evaluates the changing stewardship and ESG regulatory landscape and provides official feedback including through the response of government and non-government consultations. She is a member of the UN PRI’s Global Policy Reference Group and of the ICGN Global Policy Committee comprising senior policy professionals across the globe.

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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.