Daniel Summerfield

Daniel is the Director of ESG & UK Client Services and co-head of Pomerantz’s recently opened London office. Pomerantz LLP is the oldest law firm in the world dedicated to representing the rights of defrauded investors, and one of the most highly respected. Daniel is responsible for providing a high quality and dedicated service to UK pension funds and institutional investors to ensure they are set up to recover monies lost due to corporate misconduct anywhere in the world.

Daniel was previously Head of Corporate Affairs at the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) – the UK’s largest pension fund. He was responsible for USS’s external affairs and public relations, including government engagement and corporate communications, for both the pension and investments businesses. Prior to that, Daniel co-headed the Responsible Investment Team at USS Investment Management where he was responsible for the stewardship of the companies, funds and assets in which USS invests by engaging on key governance issues and market-wide risks as part of the internal investment process

Prior to USS, he was the Head of Corporate Governance at the Institute of Directors.

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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.