Shipra Gupta

Shipra brings with her over two decades of global work experience spanning Financial Services, Management Consulting, Healthcare, Consumer Goods and Social Enterprise. Of these, she has spent the last 13 years working in Sustainable Finance.

In her current role as the Investments Stewardship Lead at Scottish Widows, she influences the investment value chain to integrate environmental, social and governance factors, with a ‘double materiality’ lens, through engagement with policy makers, regulators, investment managers, investee companies, civil society and peer organisations.

Living in London with her family, Shipra also gives her time as a Trustee to The Conservation Volunteers, a charity that connects people with nature and as a NED at the Soil Association. She has also been on the Board of Trustees at ShareAction, a responsible investment non-profit and chaired the Board of her local 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.