Sachiko Kai

Sachiko Kai is a former member of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB), serving from 2019 to 2024, and was nominated by the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA).

Sachiko previously served as an International Foundation for Ethic and Audit Staff Fellow with the IAASB from 2014 to 2015 and has recently rejoined the IAASB staff and Fellowship program on a part-time basis as IAASB Senior Advisor.

Sachiko is Technical Director of the JICPA. Since 2007, she has been actively involved in IAASB activities and has supported JICPA committees on auditing and assurance standards. Prior to joining the JICPA, Sachiko worked at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

Sachiko is a Certified Public Accountant in Japan.

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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.