Scott Grinsell

Scott Grinsell is Global Co-Head of Engagement at Elliott Investment Management, where he focuses on the firm’s activism and M&A situations globally. He was previously a corporate lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the United States Supreme Court. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.Phil. from Magdalen College Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. summa cum laude from Williams College. Scott is a member of the Board of Advisors of the NYU Law School Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance and the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance.

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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.