Amy Borrus

Amy Borrus is the former executive director of the Council of Institutional Investors. She led CII from July 2020 until she retired on June 30, 2024. She joined CII in 2006 as deputy director and was interim executive director in 2015-2016. Prior to CII, she was a correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine for more than 20 years. Her journalism career included multi-year assignments in London, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. She currently serves on the board of the Sinai Assisted Housing Foundation. She earned an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in History and English from the University of Pennsylvania.

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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.