Critical Resource is an advisory firm specialising in sustainability and stakeholder issues. Our particular focus is on the natural resource industries such as energy and mining.

We have two main goals: to provide authoritative, independent analysis on sustainability & stakeholder issues; and to assist clients to manage them in a strategic, far-sighted and responsible way. In addition to our client work, our core team brings together experience working for a number of the world's largerst resource companies, The Economist, McKinsey, the OECD, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, among other organisations.

We use a proprietary methodology, LicenseSecure™ , to assess the health of the 'socio-political license to operate' for resource projects. The senior advisory panel for LicenseSecure™ comprises Lord (John) Browne, Bill Emmott and Professor Paul Collier.