Critical Resource Strategy & Analysis

Critical Resource (CR) can bring together a number of different experts on a project by project basis. Please contact us for information. Though CR has no current senior vacancies, speculative CVs are welcomed from those with significant expertise or operational management experience in resource-sector sustainability issues.

Daniel Litvin Juliet Hepker David Rice Carola Kantz

Daniel Litvin is director of CR (formerly Percept Risk & Strategy Ltd). 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 CR, Daniel is currently a senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, where he specialises 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 a 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.

Juliet Hepker is a CSR consultant with particular experience in the extractive sector. Recent projects have included: research for a leading international organisation on corporate responsibility in weak governance zones, focusing on the mining industry in the DRC; an analysis of risk issues affecting a major global oil company; and research and policy-level work on sustainability & social issues in the diamond industry.

Juliet is the author of a report 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, and a BA in economics and politics from Trinity College Dublin. Juliet is fluent in French and German.

David Rice, 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 adviser 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).

Carola Kantz is an analyst with expertise in sustainability issues in the extractive industries, particularly in the diamond and oil and gas sectors. In addition to her research & consulting work, Carola is currently in the final stages of completing her PhD thesis at the London School of Economics. This examines the regulation of extractive industries through multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Kimberley Process and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

Carola has taught International Political Economy at the LSE, and holds an MA with distinction in politics, economics and public law from Heidelberg University. Carola is fluent in French and German.