Willie Botha

Willie joined the IAASB in January 2019. He leads the IAASB team in advancing the IAASB’s strategy and work program and works closely with the IAASB Chair in managing the activities of the Board.

Willie has a broad range of experience in different aspects of the audit profession, after previously serving as a Senior Executive at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Senior Technical Specialist at the Auditor General South Africa and an audit partner and technical director at an audit firm. Willie was also the head of the Department of Accounting, and Associate Professor of Auditing, at the University of Pretoria.

He has previously served as a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountant’s Assurance Guidance Committee and the South African audit regulator’s Committee for Auditing Standards.

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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.