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We assemble a tailored team to suit the requirements of each client assignment. We draw on a network of senior advisors with high-level experience at some of the world's leading resource companies, and on local and in-country experts and sources as appropriate. Examples of our core team and some of our advisors:
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is founder and director of Critical Resource. He has been a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he worked with the firm’s leadership on "business in society" issues. He is author of ' Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest & Corporate Responsibility', described by the Financial Times as "thoughtful, intensively researched and deeply impressive". According to Director magazine, the book "contributes real insights into a difficult board responsibility". Daniel has been invited to present the results of his research at Harvard, Stanford & London business schools. Separately from his work at Critical Resource, Daniel has also been a senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, specialising in the geopolitics of energy.
Prior to his work at McKinsey, Daniel was policy advisor to Rio Tinto plc, the mining multinational, where he worked with senior management on human rights & other sustainability topics. He started his career at The Economist, where he worked as the magazine's environment and resources correspondent. In 1998, Daniel was joint winner of the Wincott Award for young financial journalist of the year. His writing was also shortlisted for the Greenpeace award for best business coverage and the World Bank award for the ethics of international business. He has first class degrees in anthropology and development from the London School of Economics, and in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford.
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is a senior associate at Critical Resource. He joined the company from the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, where he worked on a range of resource and environmental issues with a particular focus on relations between the EU and China over energy and climate change. He previously covered environmental and mining news in Chile as a reporter for The Santiago Times. He has also worked for an NGO in the conflict-resolution sector, and for the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels as a researcher on the EU’s external trade and producer rights. Rob holds an MSc with distinction in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a first-class BA from Cambridge University in Social and Political Sciences.
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Alex Bescoby is an associate at Critical Resource. He joined the company from Cambridge University, where he attained a joint honours BA in Social and Political Sciences with Management from Sidney Sussex College and the Judge Business Institute. His research interests include the development of mineral certification for the mining sector and the link between natural resources and conflict. In 2008 Alex was awarded the International Alliance of Research Universities Global Leaders Scholarship for his fieldwork in the borderlands of Thailand and Burma.
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Sophie Durham is an associate at Critical Resource. She joined the company from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London where she completed an MA in African Studies, focused on African politics and West African anthropology. Sophie previously graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University with a First Class Honours BA in Geography. Her research interests include the influence of Pan-Africanism on African American investment and political relations in Ghana.
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Henry Hall is an associate at Critical Resource. Henry joined the company from africapractice where he worked on stakeholder engagement and media relations on a large mining project in West Africa. Previously Henry earned a first class MA in History and Politics at Edinburgh University and an MSc in Political Economy of Late Development at the London School of Economics. Henry’s research interests centre on China’s engagement with Africa, and he has written extensively on the subject for various international media. Henry also spent a summer in Washington DC working on the Regional Voices project at the Stimson Centre. The project studies civil society perception of non-traditional security threats such as resource and water issues in the Indian Ocean region.
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, an advisor on the social and environmental impacts of business, was formerly director of BP's policy unit, the company's chief of staff for government and public affairs, and also BP's group policy advisor on development issues. During his 27-year career at BP, David was also a geophysicist, a structural geologist, head of geoscience training, exploration manager for BP in China, a commercial analyst, and strategic planner. He worked for BP in Holland, Norway, Alaska, Texas, Thailand, Egypt and China, and advised on the social impacts of major projects in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Angola, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Indonesia and Russia. He instigated for BP various relationships with NGOs and was one of the initiators of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights for the oil, gas and mining industries. David is now an independent consultant, and has recently worked with resource industries in Australia, Angola and Azerbaijan.
Prior to joining BP in 1979, David was at the UK National Physical Laboratory where he had been part of an atmospheric research team measuring and modelling stratospheric ozone. Before that he was a research astrophysicist at London University, working in a joint team with the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. David is currently a senior associate of the University of Cambridge Program for Industry, contributing to sustainable development education programs for businesses, NGOs and governments. David is co-author of Ethics and the Multinational Corporation (Mackenzie and Rice in 'The Moral Universe', Demos, 2002).
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is a leading expert in socio-economic impact assessment (SIAs), with extensive on-the-ground experience working with natural resource companies over the last 10 years. He has conducted SIAs and stakeholder consultations for resource projects in numerous countries, including Russia, Slovakia, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone and Sudan. Other client projects have included the development of socio-economic plans for mine closure, sustainable regeneration planning for resource projects in South Asia, a supply chain socio-economic accounting and assurance system for the diamond sector, support for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and internal SIA guidelines for a major oil company. Magnus regularly reviews and provides assurance for corporate sustainability reports.
Magnus's academic background includes a PhD in socio-economic impact assessment and an MSc in international development planning. Magnus is also fully accredited as a socio-economic assessor, accountant and assurance provider. He has published widely on sustainability and approaches to SIAs and has worked as a researcher at Oxford and Warwick universities.
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is an advisor to Critical Resource with a number of years' experience working on corporate responsibility issues in the extractive sector. Projects prior to joining Critical Resource include: research for the OECD on corporate responsibility in weak governance zones, focusing on the mining industry in the DRC; an analysis of socio-political risks affecting a major global oil company; and research and policy-level work on conflict diamonds. Juliet is the author of a study on business & human-rights management systems, published by Ethical Corporation, and was previously a consultant at Maplecroft. Juliet has a masters in management from ESCP-EAP European School of Management where she wrote a thesis on the role of oil companies in conflict countries, and a BA in economics and politics from Trinity College Dublin. She is fluent in French and German. |
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