Lindsey Stewart

Lindsey Stewart is the director of investment stewardship research at Morningstar Sustainalytics. Based in London, Lindsey works closely with Morningstar Sustainalytics’ engagement and proxy voting specialists worldwide to provide clarity on how institutional investors, companies and regulators are approaching key sustainability and governance themes in global finance. Lindsey joined Morningstar in 2022 from the UK Financial Reporting Council where he was head of stakeholder engagement. Prior to that, his career spans over 20 years in corporate investor relations consulting, equity research, and financial reporting and regulation at KPMG and Makinson Cowell. Lindsey is a Chartered Global Management Accountant and a CFA Charterholder.

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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.