Erica Serpio

Erica Serpico is a director leading the development and international expansion of Vanguard’s Investor Choice initiative across the U.K. and Europe. Prior to this role, she served as a director within Vanguard’s Investment Stewardship team, leading corporate engagement and proxy voting across various U.S. sectors and international sub-regions, with a recent focus on the U.K. market. Erica joined Vanguard in 2013 through a rotational leadership development program. She began her career in the Portfolio Review Department as an investment research manager, where she developed new mutual funds and ETFs and recommended enhancements to the existing product lineup for U.S.-based investors. Erica earned a B.A. in mathematics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. with a concentration in strategy from London Business School.

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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.