Critical Resource (CR) is a specialist firm providing analysis, advice and other assistance on sustainability and stakeholder issues facing major organisations.

CR’s aim is to assist clients to meet their business goals by managing these issues in a strategic, far-sighted and responsible way. CR is also a source of independent analysis & comment in this area.

A particular focus of expertise is the natural resources sector, including energy and mining, where such issues are often critical to business success.

CR can bring together a range of experts on project basis. The firm’s director, Daniel Litvin, is a former McKinsey consultant, environment correspondent of The Economist, author of ‘Empires of Profit’, and separately works as a senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.