Akiko Shintani

Team Leader of the Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division

Financial Services Agency of Japan

Japan

Akiko has served as Team Leader of the Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) since July 2024. She is responsible for corporate governance reform in Japan as well as regulatory matters related to corporate control. She joined the FSA in 2011.

From 2022 to 2024, she worked as Senior Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). As a member of the Secretariat of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, she contributed to the 2023 revision of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and the 2023 edition of the Corporate Governance Factbook.

From 2019 to 2022, she served as First Secretary at the Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD, where she participated in the meetings of the OECD Committee on Financial Markets and supported coordination between the Government of Japan and the OECD.

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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.