Ben is an ESG Analyst at Asset Value Investors (AVI), where he leads ESG research, risk integration, and investee company engagement across £2.1B AUM global equity funds. AVI is a boutique activist-engagement investment manager, based in London. He also sits on the internal AVI Stewardship and Sustainability Risk Committee, and was appointed in 2025 to the UN PRI Sustainable Systems Investment Managers Reference Group. Prior to AVI, Ben was a Sustainable Finance Consultant at the global management consulting firm Guidehouse; including responsibilities as the APAC Coordinator for the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF), which Guidehouse serve as the global Secretariat for. Ben holds an MA Economics (First Class Honours) from the University of Glasgow, and an MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance from Imperial College London. He also holds the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.

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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.