Emmanuel Thierry

Emmanuel has over 20 years experience providing assurance and advisory services to international clients.

Since 2022, he has taken the role of CSRD Task Force Leader at Forvis Mazars to drive preparation to the challenges induced by the CSRD in both its audit and advisory service lines. He is also the Global Sustainability Audit Leader at Mazars and an audit signing partner for large international clients established in France, notably in the banking sector.

Prior to taking this role, Emmanuel was the managing partner of Forvis Mazars in Japan where he has been located for 10 years, leading the development of the firm from 20 to 200 staffs and partners. In parallel, Emmanuel was an audit and transaction services partner, supporting European and American groups across all sectors in M&A and audit projects. In Japan, Emmanuel started research on ESG matters with the publication with the Tokyo Institute of Technology of a comprehensive comparative study on ESG reporting between Europe and Asia.

Whereas Emmanuel started his career in the banking department of the Paris office, he qualified as a CPA while being seconded to the New York office where he spent almost 7 years, notably supporting European banks at the time of the subprime crisis.

He studied in Paris, France (Master, Sciences Po) and in Leipzig, Germany (Politikwissenschaft).

Emmanuel’s expertise areas are more specifically around ESG reporting standards, Accounting, auditing and financial reporting under IFRS and US GAAP, project management, Transaction services / due diligence and cross border finance function organization and reporting process.

Emmanuel is fluent in English, French and German.

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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.