Florence Taylor is a Project Officer and Researcher at Levin Sources. She supports on, manages, and conducts research for projects on topics related to raw materials, governance, and policy.
Her projects have included:
- Leading the research on a report on deep seabed mining and its implications for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. | Read the full report here
- Managing a project in which Levin Sources is providing the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), its member states and supply chain actors in the gold sector with sets of guidelines for implementing chain of custody systems for artisanal and small-scale (ASM) gold that are compliant with the Regional Certification Mechanism (RCM).
- Managing a long-term project involving multiple stakeholders for the European Commission, in which Levin Sources is developing a social licence to operate for the extraction of critical raw materials from geothermal fluids.
- Project managing a study for the World Gold Council on the role of processing plants in supporting the formalisation and professionalisation of artisanal and small-scale gold supply chains.
- Supporting on a project that saw Levin Sources develop a comprehensive corporate strategy for a large mining company’s management of ASM miners in Ethiopia.
Florence recently graduated with a BSc in Marine Biology from the University of Exeter, where she conducted research on the human impacts on the ecology of the herring gull (sea gull). Her areas of interest centre on environmental sustainability, climate change, and the interconnectivity between social and environmental sustainability.
Florence works fluently in English and can hold a day-to-day conversation in French and Spanish, and is based in the UK.
