Paul Rissman

Paul Rissman was employed as a quantitative and fundamental equities analyst, portfolio manager, director of research, and chief investment officer at AllianceBernstein LP from 1989 until 2008, including eight years spent on the Executive Committee. Since then he has served on the Boards and Investment Committees of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Sierra Club Foundation. In 2019 he co-founded Rights CoLab, a global network of human rights experts, where he helps lead on the intersection of business, finance and human rights. Rights CoLab operated under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Value Reporting Foundation to inform SASB standard-setting on human rights at work, and is also a founding member of the Taskforce on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures and a member of the Working Group to launch a Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures. Paul is an advisor to Just Capital and the Penn Museum Cultural Heritage Center, and participating faculty member at the Columbia Climate School. His Ph.D is from the University of Pennsylvania (Anthropology), and his MBA is from Columbia 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.