Caglar Somek

Caglar Somek, CFA, joined British Columbia Investment Management (BCI) in July 2021 as Portfolio Manager to launch and manage BCI’s first active internal Global Emerging Markets equities fund which has a long-term, fundamental, long only investment framework focusing on quality and cash flow generative companies at attractive valuations. Caglar has over 20 years of experience in international equities, investment research and portfolio management in Wall Street. Prior to BCI, Caglar was a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager at TimesSquare Capital managing the firm’s Emerging Markets Small Capitalization fund. Before joining Times Square in 2016, Mr. Somek was a Portfolio Manager, Chief Investment Officer and Partner at Caravel Management where he managed both the long-only and long/short Emerging and Frontier Markets strategies. Previously, Caglar was a Senior Investment Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs Asset Management focusing on Asia Pacific ex-Japan and Emerging Markets stock investments as a generalist. Caglar’s prior experience also includes Research Analyst roles at Citigroup Asset Management, Credit Suisse First Boston and Stern Stewart. He holds a B.S. in Economics and Finance from Université de Paris IX Dauphine in France as well as a M.A. in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University in the US. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts. Caglar is a former member of the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance and GW Foundation Boards as well as Carnegie and American Turkish Society (ATS) young leaders program. Caglar has regularly contributed with his emerging markets insights to Bloomberg, NPR, Fox Business News in the US and Forbes, Ekoturk, Bloomberg and Voice of America in Turkey. He is fluent in Turkish and French.

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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.