Scott Zdrazil is Principal Investment Officer at the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA), which manages more than US$100 billion in assets in a defined benefit plan and other post-employment benefits on behalf of over 200,00 members and beneficiaries. He leads LACERA’s investment stewardship strategies which aim to protect and promote financial performance, including corporate governance initiatives, financial market policy advocacy, global proxy voting, and investment due diligence and analytics of financially relevant sustainability factors.

He previously chaired the Council of Institutional Investors board and has been named to the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Directorship 100 list. He is a member of the Society for Corporate Governance and currently serves on the International Corporate Governance Network’s Global Policy Committee, the Investor Advisory Group to the International Financial Reporting Standards’ (IFRS) International Sustainability Standards Board, and the Best Practices Principles (BPP) Oversight Committee for proxy research firms.

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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.