Harlan Tufford

Harlan Tufford is a research analyst in MSCI’s Emerging Risk R&D team, developing total-portfolio solutions for AI-driven workforce disruption, the energy transition and other emerging risk areas for investors. From 2020 to 2025, he led MSCI’s corporate governance research team in the Americas, where he oversees the development and application of governance-related methodologies and research commentary for U.S. and Canadian companies. 

Prior to joining MSCI in 2020, Harlan held roles as a corporate governance advisor with the Hansell McLaughlin Advisory Group and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), and as a corporate governance researcher with the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness at the Rotman School of Management. 

Harlan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, where he was a Joint Specialist in History and Political Science, and a master’s degree in business law from Osgoode Hall Law 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.