David Frick

David Frick is Secretary to the Board of Directors of Nestlé S.A. and responsible for Corporate Governance, Corporate Legal and Corporate Services. Over the past years he helped Nestlé develop into a leader in Corporate Governance in its home market and beyond and has developed the Company’s corporate compliance management system.

David Frick chairs the Drafting Commission of the Swiss Code of Best Practice of Corporate Governance and leads the Legal Commission of economiesuisse.

Prior to joining Nestlé, Mr. Frick was a Member of the Executive Board and Group General Counsel of Credit Suisse Group, and an attorney-at-law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, the New York law firm.

Mr. Frick received a JD degree from Zurich University, a Masters of Laws degree from Harvard Law School and an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Zurich and the New York bar.

Mr. Frick is a member of the Boards of economiesuisse, SwissHoldings, ICC Switzerland and Allianz Suisse.

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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.