Yuichi Murao

Mr. Yuichi Murao is the Chief Investment Officer since April 2024 covering NAM’s entire investment and research unit. He has over 30 years of industry experience playing key roles especially in the investment management of Japanese equities. He started his career
with Nomura in 1990 as a portfolio manager in charge of domestic pension funds to extend his coverage to international institutional investors. He became the chairman of Japanese Stock Selection Committee (SSC) in 2009 and the Chairman of Japanese Equity
Investment Strategy Committee (JESC) in 2015. He became the CIO of Active Japanese Equity in 2023.


Mr. Murao holds a MBA from London Business School and a B.A. in Economics from
Hitotsubashi University. He is a CFA charterholder.

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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.