Mike Pedersen

Mike Pedersen is a Corporate Director who serves on the boards of CGI Group, AtkinsRéalis, and Nature Conservancy of Canada.  He is also Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo and a member of the Global Risk Institute’s Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee. 

Mike was Chair of the Board of the Business Development Bank of Canada from 2018 to 2023.  Prior to that he was President and CEO of TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, a top ten bank in the United States.  He held senior leadership roles in financial services around the world for 35 years and is a former Chair of the Canadian Bankers Association.

Mike has a long and ongoing involvement with charitable organizations focused on nature, the environment, and social services.

He graduated from University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and from University of Toronto with a Master of Industrial Relations degree.

Mike lives in Toronto with his wife Martha.  They have three adult children.

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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.