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Japan’s ruling party warns about suspected collusion between activist investors and private equity
In draft policy proposals, the Liberal Democratic Party's project team on corporate governance said there have been some cases in which activists are suspected of ​working behind the scenes with private equity funds seeking to take listed companies private.
BofA names senior executives to drive AI adoption in global markets-memo
The bank named Kevin Milsom ​as head of platforms AI transformation, ​according to the memo by Ashok Krishnan, ⁠head of platforms within the global ​markets group.
ICGN 2026 Awards Spotlight Global Best Practices in Stewardship and Corporate Governance
The International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) is proud to announce the winners of the ICGN Awards 2025, celebrating excellence in stewardship and corporate governance across the global investment community. These awards highlight organisations, teams, and individuals who exemplify the principles of corporate governance and stewardship.
Quality matters – reflections on the assurance of sustainability reporting market
At ICGN, we think that to produce reliable, comparable sustainable disclosures, the first key thing is that companies must be prepared to produce sustainability information, with strong governance, internal processes and controls for that.
Embedding Korea’s Corporate Governance Reform for Capital Market Confidence, Financial Services Commission
A record number of nominations was received this year, and a global shortlist of nominees was created by the ICGN Awards Committee and reviewed by independent judging panels.

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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.