Sakura Omori is an engagement specialist and former investment analyst in long-short and engagement strategies. She joined Nomura Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Research Department in 2025, leading stewardship and engagement with Japanese listed companies. Previously, she worked at SPARX Asset Management K.K. (joined 2021), where she helped launch a $1 billion engagement fund in 2023, and earlier served as an M&A advisory associate at PwC Advisory K.K. Her strengths include TMT, machinery, food, and real estate sectors and engagement with corporate management.

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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.