Salla Ahonen

Salla Ahonen is a sustainability professional with more than 20 years of experience in sustainability, public affairs & innovation. She is passionate about climate, innovation, partnerships, and sustainability. As the Vice President of Sustainability at Neste, Salla’s primary focus is on realigning the sustainability focus areas of Neste and ensuring they are fully integrated to the business strategy. Recent milestones include publishing the new sustainability vision as part of the company strategy, and the approval of the climate strategy to reach carbon neutral production by 2035, which is also one of the strategic priorities of the company. To support this commitment, a roadmap has been developed, many steps already implemented, including changing the investment criteria so that they support the climate targets and linking the climate targets with executive remuneration. Before joining Neste, Salla worked as a Senior Advisor at the Brussels office of the Confederation of Finnish Industries (2015–2019), and as Director of Governmental Affairs at Microsoft (2014–2015). Prior to that Salla has held several positions at Nokia, the latest one being Director for Sustainability & Environmental Policy.

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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.