Mary Jane is a Portfolio Manager on the Sustainability Leaders Strategy and the Head of ESG at ClearBridge Investments. She joined the firm in 1996 and has 30 years of investment industry experience. Mary Jane serves on the ClearBridge Proxy Voting Committee.

Mary Jane has been with the ESG Investment program since 1996.  She began her tenure as a Business Unit Analyst at Smith Barney, before merging with Citigroup Asset Management, and then rebranded as ClearBridge Investments.  While at Citigroup, she served as a Senior Research Analyst for sustainable investment strategies and became a Portfolio Manager on ClearBridge’s ESG investment strategies in 2009.

Mary Jane serves on the Board of Directors for Net Impact. She also serves on the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Advisory Committee for the Listed Equities Working Group.

Mary Jane received an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in finance from Fordham University.

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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.