Susanne is a Leader in Residence at Copenhagen Business School and a recognized authority in corporate sustainability and accountability, with extensive experience driving transformative change in business practices from within.

As partner and Sustainability Services leader at PwC Denmark (2021-2025), she led the firm’s business development of advisory and assurance services. In this role she advised and assisted boards and management teams on making their organisations more sustainable businesses. 

At Novo Nordisk (2000-2020) she joined to ingrain the principle-based approach to business known as the Triple Bottom Line concept as the lens for better-informed decision-making. Since then, as Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, she led sustainability-driven initiatives, issues management and stakeholder engagement, with particular focus on investors seeking to understand the company’s ESG risks and opportunities and the community of sustainability professionals. As an early mover, she was the driver behind the integration of the company’s financial and sustainability reporting which began in 2004.

Beyond her role as Vice-Chair at ICGN, Susanne shares her experience and insights in additional roles including as an external lecturer at Roskilde University, visiting professor at UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business, member of the Board of Trustees at Shift, member of the Board of Directors at Access to Nutrition Foundation and member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Business at OECD.

In 2020 – 2022 she was member of the EFRAG Project Task Force to develop the foundation for European Standards for Corporate Sustainability Reporting and also member of the SASB Standards Board. 

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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.