Amplified: Why there is no going back on ESG

Mitch joined the international business of Federated Hermes in February 2010 as Head of Research on the Credit team before becoming Co-Head of Credit from 2012 to 2019. In 2019, in addition to his role of Head of Research, he became Head of Sustainable Fixed Income and co-manager of the Federated Hermes SDG Engagement High Yield Credit Fund. Prior to this he was Co-Head of Credit Research for the global credit team at Fortis Investments. Other roles at Fortis include portfolio manager of European high yield funds, based in London, and senior credit analyst, based in Paris. Before this he worked as an associate analyst in the leveraged finance group at Moody’s Investors Service in New York. Mitch earned a Master’s degree in International Affairs at Columbia University in New York City and a Bachelor’s degree in History at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges in California. He is a CFA charterholder and Co-Chair of the Federated Hermes Sustainability Investment Centre. Among his current and former advocacy roles are: founding member of the Executive Committee for the European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA); Co-Chair of the Credit Risk and Ratings Advisory Committee at the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI); workstream member CFO Taskforce for the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC); member the Target Setting workstream at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC); Technical Working Group (Communications and Technology) for the US-based Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB); (former) Co-Chair of the Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the IFRS Foundation; (former) member of the Sovereign Working Group (PRI); (former) workstream member of the UK-China Green Finance Task Force; and (former) Green Finance Advisory of the City of London.

Ingrid Holmes joined the international business of Federated Hermes in 2018 and leads its policy and advocacy work. She has over 13 years of experience working on environmental policy and sustainable finance issues, with a long-standing interest in climate change. Ingrid was previously a director at sustainable development think tank E3G, leading a range of global initiatives on sustainable and inclusive finance, including the establishment of the UK Green Investment Bank. She has also held positions at the low carbon asset manager Climate Change Capital; been an energy and environment adviser to UK Parliament; and adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Ingrid has also held several government advisory roles, including Adviser to the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Energy Security (2009), Sherpa to the Green Investment Bank Commission (2010/2011), Member of the UK Green Finance Initiative (2016/2018), Member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2017/2018) and ran the Secretariat for the Green Finance Taskforce (2017/2018). Prior to her career in public policy, Ingrid worked for nine years in science publishing and journalism, with her last role based in New York working for Nature Publishing Group. She has a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London.