Catherine Winner

Catherine is a managing director within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, serving as global head of Stewardship. She manages the firm’s global proxy voting, issuer engagement and collaborative industry activities. Through these programs, she promotes the adoption of best practices in corporate governance and the firm’s commitment to accelerating the climate transition and driving inclusive growth. Catherine is an ambassador for One Million Black Women, Goldman Sachs’ $10 billion investing initiative focused on narrowing opportunity gaps for Black women. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2018 as a vice president in Fundamental Equity and was named managing director in 2021.

Prior to joining the firm, Catherine worked in Corporate Governance at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), where she was a member of MSIM’s Proxy Review Committee, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Working Group and the firm’s Women in Business Alliance. Before that, she managed the Corporate Governance program at Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC.

Catherine serves on the Investor Advisory Group for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and is a former chair of the Corporate Governance Advisory Council within the Council of Institutional Investors.

Catherine earned a BA in Economics from Colgate University in 2002 and an MBA from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University in 2009.

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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.