Anthony Garcia

Anthony Garcia is a Director and Head of Americas Stewardship for the Blackrock Active Investment Stewardship Team (BAIS). The BAIS team, established in January 2025, works in partnership with BlackRock’s investment teams, excluding index equity, providing expertise on investment stewardship, engaging with companies on behalf of those teams when appropriate, and assisting in recommending, operationalizing and reporting on voting decisions. The team engages companies and others in the investment stewardship ecosystem to promote the governance and business practices aligned with financial value creation by the companies in which BlackRock invests on behalf of clients.

Mr. Garcia also represents the BAIS team in various industry groups and events such as the Investor Advisory Group of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), and other networks that seek to align investor and corporate views around stewardship, reporting, and governance matters. He also serves on the ISSB Sustainability Reference Group which is a technical advisory group of subject matter experts that help inform research and standard-setting projects.

Mr. Garcia joined Blackrock in 2025. Previously, he managed the investment stewardship function at Nuveen, a TIAA company and also lead the ESG integration function for equities as part of the Nuveen Responsible Investing team. He has experience working with global institutional investors on proxy and other ESG-related matters as a member of the custom research team at Institutional Shareholder Services. He has held a variety of other research-oriented roles across legal and financial services.

Anthony Garcia received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hamilton College and a juris doctorate from Vanderbilt University.

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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.