Sungho Joo

Sungho Joo is the Executive Director of the Sustainability Standards Department at the Korea Accounting Institute (KAI), where he leads the development of Korea’s sustainability disclosure standards aligned with global frameworks such as ISSB standards. He previously served as a Visiting Fellow at the IFRS Foundation in London and as Head of the Planning and Strategy Team at KAI, contributing to international standard-setting coordination and institutional strategy.

Prior to joining KAI, he worked at Samsung SDS and Ernst & Young Korea. He holds Master’s degrees in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Birkbeck, University of London, and is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

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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.