Tracy Gopal

Tracy Gopal, founder of corporate governance consulting firm Third Arrow Strategies, has had a passion for Japan for over 30 years. She is a corporate governance and corporate finance expert with 30+ years of experience, with her main prior roles at EY, investment bank GCA, and proxy advisor ISS.

Her company’s key focus is strengthening corporate governance by strengthening board composition, board effectiveness, and board education. She has built a strong reputation as a thought leader in board composition and serves companies, investors, and private equity firms with skills-based, global-minded candidate introductions. In addition, she promotes the importance of shareholder dialogue and globalization.

In 2021, she founded the Japan Board Diversity Network (JBDN). The JBDN is the largest global network of female board directors and executive talent serving on boards in Japan or interested in serving on boards in Japan.  Ms. Gopal is a board director of the Japan Society of Northern California and a USJC Council Leader. She is a former Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) participant. She resides in San Francisco and is fluent in Japanese.

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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.