Nga Pham is a senior research fellow at the Monash Centre for Financial Studies (MCFS). She works on issues related to pensions, ESG and shareholder activism. Nga is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index.

Nga is currently also a co-chair of the ICGN’s Financial Capital Committee. Before that, she was a member of the Disclosure and Transparency Committee of ICGN.

Before joining Monash University, Nga was a consultant at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, working for the Vietnam Corporate Governance Project. Her work involved raising awareness, regulatory advocacy, capacity building and firm advisory activities in corporate governance for companies in Vietnam. She had also worked in equity research at Vietnam Asset Management and Bien Viet Securities (now Woori CBV Securities).

Nga was also an academic at Hanoi University in Vietnam for more than 15 years. She had assumed various leadership roles, including the Executive Director of La Trobe – HANU joint programs, Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Management and Tourism. In addition, she taught the MBA and Master of International Business programs at La Trobe University in Melbourne in various areas of finance such as corporate governance, investment and portfolio management, corporate finance and international finance.

Nga has a BCom from the University of Melbourne, MBA and PhD degrees from La Trobe University. She received the AusAID scholarship and the Australian Leadership Award from the Australian Government.

Nga is a CFA charterholder and an active volunteer and member of the CFA Society Melbourne.

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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.