Aarleen McGichen

Arleen joined RLG in March 2022 as the Group Chief Audit Officer and am responsible for setting the vision for internal audit and the delivery of timely and high-quality assurance and advice to support RL in achieving its strategy and purpose.

Her career has always been in financial services – either in risk management or internal audit roles – and have over 25 years of experience leading internal audit and risk teams.  I am a director-at-large of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland and a lay member position at Glasgow University.

She has a studied risk management at university with a Masters in Risk and also completed the CMIIA qualification for the CIIA UK & Ireland, along with investment Management and Treasury qualifications.

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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.