Helena Fung

As Head of Research and Advocacy, Helena leads the research team and coordinates advocacy efforts across the Asia region, working closely with the ACGA’s Secretary General and secretariat team. Dr. Helena Fung (馮伊蓮娜) joined the ACGA in April 2025, prior to which she worked for the London Stock Exchange Group as Head of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for strategy, expansion and product development across the region, focused on indexes, data and analytics solutions. A core part of her role was regulatory engagement with policy makers and standard setters and stock exchange partnerships focusing on sustainability initiatives. Helena relocated to Hong Kong in 2014 from London – a key hub for ESG investments, where she worked for the responsible investment arm of Hermes Investment Management, enabling pension funds and asset managers to integrate sustainability criteria into passive and active portfolios. Helena’s experience includes ESG integration, equity analysis and advising on philanthropy for family office, asset management and institutional clients. She has been working in ESG and Sustainable Investment since 2008, including providing advisory research on stewardship implementation for pension funds and family office clients, drafting responsible investment policies and integrating sustainability policies into both active and passive portfolios. Helena has postgraduate qualifications in law and holds a professional investment qualification and a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow.

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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.