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 sustainable and just minerals value chains.

As a certified board director (CDir Dip IoD), Estelle is dedicated to shaping the future of responsible and impactful leadership. She 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 proud to be a Global Inspirational Woman in Mining (WIM100; 2020) and an African Mining Review's Mining Elite in Africa (2024).

Estelle’s influence extends beyond her role as a CEO. Estelle is a Commissioner for the Global Investor Commission for Mining 2030 and co-chair of their Working Group on Meaningful Stakeholder Participation for Equitable and Sustainable Benefits, chairs the Investing in African Mining Indaba’s Sustainability Committee. As a strong advocate for gender equality, she serves as a member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council and the Women in Mining UK’s Policy & Research Committee, and has served as a mentor for the International in Women Resources Mentoring Programme since 2020. She is also a member of the Femina Collective.

Estelle is a sought-after host, public speaker and moderator with frequent engagements whether on her home island of Guernsey or in the international arena. Estelle regularly shapes the dialogue at leading minerals events, such as the Indaba, PDAC, the OECD Responsible Minerals Forum, Resourcing Tomorrow, the West Africa Minerals & Security Conference, the Natural Resources Forum, and more.

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,

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.