Kirsten Hund

GM Climate and Nature Vale Base Metals

Kirsten Hund is an experienced sustainability leader with a strong track record on strategy development and implementation in climate change mitigation, nature-based solutions, renewable energy, strategic minerals and sustainable natural resource governance. She joined Vale Base Metals in August 2024 as GM Climate and Nature. She is responsible for overseeing and further developing the decarbonization and nature positive strategies and targets of the company across its operations. Kirsten joined Vale from the De Beers Group, where, as Head of Carbon Neutrality, she developed and lead the Groups’ climate Strategy.  Before that, she worked for over a decade on sustainable and climate-smart mining sector development in Africa and Central Asia for the World Bank Group in Washington DC, and for several development and conservation NGOs, including WWF and Action Aid in the Netherlands and Central and Southern Africa (based in Amsterdam, Libreville, Gabon, and Johannesburg, South Africa). She is currently based in The Hague, the Netherlands.