Mitch joined in February 2010 as Head of Credit Research before becoming Co-Head of Credit from 2012 to 2019. In 2019, in addition to his role of Head of Credit Research, he became Global Head of Sustainable Fixed Income
and co-manager of the Federated Hermes SDG Engagement High Yield Credit Fund. During 2024, Mitch was named Group Head of Fixed Income – London, with responsibility for all credit portfolios managed by the London office. Prior to this he held various roles
as a high yield credit analyst portfolio manager and head of credit research at Fortis Investments (Paris) and Moody’s Investors Service (New York). He also spent several years working in the NGO sector.
Mitch holds Master’s degrees from Cambridge University in Sustainability Leadership and from Columbia University in International Affairs. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in History at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges
in California. He is a CFA charterholder and the founder and Co-Chair of the Federated Hermes Sustainability Investment Centre. Among his current and former advocacy roles are: founding board member of the European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA); Co-Chair
of the Credit Risk and Ratings Advisory Committee at the Principles for Responsible Investment (former); workstream member CFO Coalition for the SDGs of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC); (former) member the Target Setting workstream at the Institutional
Investors Group on Climate Change; (former) member and 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.
