After obtaining the MBA at the University of Cologne and completing trainee programs in New York and London, Prof. Strenger joined Deutsche Bank in 1972, where he held senior positions in corporate finance and asset management in 
Frankfurt, New York, and London until 1991. 

In 1991, he became CEO (of the management board) of ‘DWS Investment GmbH’, Germany’s largest mutual fund company with current assets of around 800 billion euros. In 1999, he joined the supervisory board of DWS and assumed supervisory 
and advisory mandates of DAX companies. 

In his role as a founding member of the German Government’s Commission for the ‘German Corporate Governance Code’ he particularly represented investor interests from 2001 to 2016. Today, he participates in the governance discussion as Vice-
Chairman of the DVFA Corporate Governance Commission that represents the four major German asset managers and leading governance experts. 


Internationally he is a member and past chairman of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and member of the BIAC Governance Committee at the OECD in Paris. In 2014, Prof. Strenger received the ICGN Lifetime Achiever 
Award in Corporate Governance for his continuing commitment in promoting international corporate governance. 

He is regularly invited to guest lectures at prominent universities (e.g. University of Münster, Philips University Marburg, and Yale University). Prof. Strenger regularly publishes articles on important governance topics in leading 
financial journals and magazines and is a speaker or panel participant at national and international conferences.

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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.