Estelle Levin-Nally

Estelle Levin-Nally, CEO and Founder of Levin Sources, is a recognised leader in the nexus of human rights, nature and minerals. She combines her commercial acumen, innovative thinking and experience in public affairs and transformational change to guide governments, industry and multistakeholder initiatives to create just, sustainable and valuable minerals value chains.

Estelle provides strategy, policy, research, due diligence, assurance, and stakeholder engagement advisory to help Levin Sources’ clients design, implement and evaluate strategic initiatives to improve business performance and sustainability outcomes. She is also a sought-after moderator and public speaker.

Estelle’s influence extends beyond her role as a CEO. She serves as a Commissioner for the Global Investor Commission for Mining 2030, chairs the Investing in African Mining’s Sustainability Committee, and is an active member of the Women in Mining UK’s Policy Committee. As a proud Global Inspirational Woman in Mining (WIM100; 2020) and a certified board director (CDir Dip IoD), Estelle is dedicated to shaping the future of responsible and impactful leadership.

As part of recent projects she’s lead, she’s helped:

• a major electronics firm investigate entry points for making its responsible sourcing of silica more circular and sustainable,
• a mid-cap gold miner developing a strategy and management plan for artisanal and small-scale mining in West Africa,
• a remining company explore the potential for discovering a green premium for their products,
• the draft the OECD Handbook for Environmental Due Diligence on Minerals Value Chains, and
• the Global Battery Alliance to develop its Human Rights and Child Labour Indices for their Battery Passport as well as a strategic paper on scaling critical minerals value chains sustainably.

Estelle is co-editing the upcoming book, “Leadership in the Just Transition: the role of remedy in responsible minerals value chains” for Springer Nature in partnership with two former Levin Sources employees, Dr. Fabiana Di Lorenzo and Victoria Gronwald.

Estelle has been studying the dynamics of ASM since her M.A. in Geography when she wrote about "Sustainable Livelihoods and Innovation in Governance of Artisanal Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone" and "Constructive Corporate Engagement in the Coltan Trade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Case Studies

Developing ERG's Clean Cobalt Framework

Discover how Levin Sources supported Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), a leading diversified natural resources producer, with the development of its Clean Cobalt Framework.

The World Bank, funded by PROFOR: Forest-Smart Mining: identifying good and bad practices of artisanal and small-scale mining in forest landscapes

We undertook a series of case studies to identify and analyse good and bad practices of ASM in forest landscapes for The Program on Forests (PROFOR), hosted by the World Bank Group.

Gübelin Gem Lab: Piloting of Emerald Paternity Test Traceability Technology in the Artisanal and Small-scale Mining Sector

Gübelin Gem Lab contracted Levin Sources to deepen its understanding of ASM emerald sectors and perform pre-pilot in-country scoping for its Emerald Paternity Test traceability technology.

Development of a National Strategy for ASM in DRC and a National Action Plan for the ASM technical services (SAEMAPE, formerly SAESSCAM)

Explore how we designed an end-to-end capacity building programme to better support the DRC ASM sector.

Selected Publications

"We have to think more widely than just climate change, for the sake of climate change"

Our CEO and Founder Estelle Levin-Nally outlines her vision for our sector in 2024.

White paper: How miners can be forest stewards

In 2019, ​Levin Sources signed onto the New York Declaration on Forests, a partnership to halve deforestation by 2020, and end it by 2030. The world has lost 50% of its forests already, and we are losing 48 football fields of forest every minute.

Are they all illegal? A more nuanced view to guide LSM engagement with ASM

Understanding the many legal frameworks under which ASM operates is key to a successful ASM-LSM relationship.

LSM and ASM relationships: from risk management to positive impact

Read sector Insights into how LSM and ASM relationships could move beyond risk management towards positive impact and how donor-funded programmes could provide avenues for reduced-risk engagement with ASM by LSM companies.

Follow the Money: A handbook for identifying financial flows (IFFs) linked to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM)

The GIFF project partners – Levin Sources and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime – are proud to release the culmination of many months of discussion and research: ‘Follow the Money: A handbook for identifying financial flows linked to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining’.